GitHub Copilot is your AI-powered coding assistant, offering assistance throughout your software development journey. Leveraging large language models, it offers suggestions via code completions and chat, as detailed below:
- Code completions: You can receive auto-complete type suggestions from GitHub Copilot either by starting to write the code you want to use, or by writing a natural language comment describing what you want the code to do.
- Chat: You can engage in a conversation about your codebase using GitHub Copilot Chat within your IDE. Whether you're troubleshooting a bug or crafting a new feature, GitHub Copilot is here to assist when you encounter challenges – simply ask for guidance.
Getting access to GitHub Copilot
Sign up for a 30 day free trial with GitHub Copilot today or request Copilot access from your enterprise admin. Additionally, GitHub Copilot offers a free tier, which includes 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month. To access GitHub Copilot, an active GitHub Copilot license is required. You can read more about our business and individual offerings at github.com/features/copilot.
Supported languages, IDEs and framework
GitHub Copilot works on any language, including Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, C#, or C++. Because it’s been trained on languages in public repositories, it works for most popular languages, libraries and frameworks. It’s also integrated into your editor, and fast enough to use as you type.
What can you do with GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot offers numerous possibilities, serving as your comprehensive coding assistance and guiding you throughout your coding journey from start to finish. Here are a few use cases to illustrate its value.
- Code completions: Through our code completion features, you can autocomplete your code block, convert comments to code, create unit tests and much more using your preferred language.
- Chat: Through our chat features, you can ask coding-specific queries, receive code explanations, generate unit tests, refactor your code, and much more.
Privacy
Your code is yours. We follow responsible practices in accordance with our Privacy Statement to ensure that your code snippets will not be used as suggested code for other users of GitHub Copilot.
FAQ
Got a question? We probably have the answers. Check our FAQ.
Copilot License Terms
Feedback
We’d love to get your help in making GitHub Copilot better! If you have feedback or encounter any problems, please submit it on our community discussion.
Support
Please reach out to us at https://support.github.com/ if you have any support questions.
Troubleshooting
We’d love to get your help in making GitHub Copilot better! If you have feedback or encounter any problems, please reach out on our Feedback forum.
Categories: Editor, IDE, Languages, Programming Languages
Additional Details
Eclipse Versions: 2025-03 (4.35), 2024-12 (4.34), 2024-09 (4.33)
Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK
Organization Name: GitHub
Development Status: Beta
Date Created: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 20:39
License: Commercial - Free
Date Updated: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 21:31
Submitted by: GitHub Copilot
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March 2025 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
February 2025 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
January 2025 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
December 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
November 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
October 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
September 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
August 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
July 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
June 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
May 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
April 2024 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
Unsuccessful Installs
Unsuccessful Installs in the last 7 Days: 439
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GA timeline
Submitted by satish Chinthanippu on Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:03
Hi Team,
Thank you for the plugin. When can we expect GA release of this plugin available.
Error after installation on Version: 2024-12 (4.34.0)
Submitted by lengths smileys on Thu, 03/06/2025 - 08:55
Hallo Team,
Is there any update on:
Error Analysis
The error
com.sap.adt.cds.ddl.ui.internal.editors.pages.DdlSourcePage$2 cannot be cast to org.eclipse.jface.text.ITextViewer
indicates a plugin compatibility issue between GitHub Copilot and SAP’s ABAP Development Tools (ADT) in Eclipse.Root Cause:
DdlSourcePage
) that do not implement standard Eclipse text editor interfaces likeITextViewer
.ITextViewer
for code suggestions, which fails.Currently Using Eclipse for ABAP Development.
Best Regards
Installation failing
Submitted by Zeno Gillis on Mon, 02/24/2025 - 09:39
Hi, on MacOS the installation through Eclipse is failing.
It looks like it's depending on itself to be installed already, could you guys check how this could be resolved?
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: GitHub Copilot 0.2.0.202502180149 (com.microsoft.copilot.eclipse.feature.feature.group 0.2.0.202502180149)
Missing requirement: com.microsoft.copilot.eclipse.core 0.2.0.202502180149 (com.microsoft.copilot.eclipse.core 0.2.0.202502180149) requires 'osgi.bundle; org.eclipse.lsp4e 0.18.12' but it could not be found
Cannot satisfy dependency:
From: GitHub Copilot 0.2.0.202502180149 (com.microsoft.copilot.eclipse.feature.feature.group 0.2.0.202502180149)
To: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu; com.microsoft.copilot.eclipse.core [0.2.0.202502180149,0.2.0.202502180149]
Hi Zeno, So far the plugin…
Submitted by GitHub Copilot on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 21:03
In reply to Installation failing by Zeno Gillis
Hi Zeno,
So far the plugin only supports Eclipse 2024-09 and higher. Could you please try to update your Eclipse to a higher version and try again?
Meanwhile, we are considering to expand the support version range.
Hi, Currently using…
Submitted by Zeno Gillis on Wed, 03/05/2025 - 07:02
In reply to Hi Zeno, So far the plugin… by GitHub Copilot
Hi,
Currently using STM32CubeIDE for a project, they just release theyr 1.18.0 which has Eclipse 2024-09 underneat but I still encounter problems.
Is this a wrong Java version or is it related to the plugin?
Nice !!!!
Submitted by GILLES Hélios on Mon, 02/17/2025 - 05:06
Nice to see that there is now an official support for Github Copilot in Eclipse !!! Thx ;)
Thank you for your support!…
Submitted by GitHub Copilot on Wed, 02/19/2025 - 21:33
In reply to Nice !!!! by GILLES Hélios
Thank you for your support! We will continuously provide more features. Chat will be the next. Please stay tuned!
HI!!!! Very good news for us…
Submitted by Antonio GY on Thu, 03/06/2025 - 11:21
In reply to Thank you for your support!… by GitHub Copilot
HI!!!! Very good news for us!! When will be available the chat??
Thanks!!
Very useful
this is available now ;-)
Submitted by Thomas Froment on Fri, 03/14/2025 - 04:12
In reply to HI!!!! Very good news for us… by Antonio GY
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