Last week the company also announced the availability of Copilot for Visual Studio 2022. Translating open source code from C++ to JavaScript with Copilot

Porting code is another frequent requirement, as developers convert projects to run in different environments or to take advantage of modern programming techniques. Copilot is happy to have a go at porting C code to Rust, for example. A dropdown in the extension panel offers an impressive list of around 60 languages, from ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming, a SAP language) to yaml, and including most languages in common use, though Pascal is curiously absent. The second feature, “translate this code”, is for porting code to a different programming language. This is a common problem faced by newcomers to a project, or by developers who need to get up to speed quickly with legacy code that requires maintenance. The first is called “explain this code” and aims to provide a plain language description of what a chunk of code does, with potential for speeding the process of understanding an unfamiliar codebase. Copilot Labs, currently only available as Visual Studio Code extension separate from (but dependent on) the main Copilot extension, adds two new features.

GitHub has introduced improvements to its Copilot AI coding service, though it remains in invite-only technical preview.

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