Captain Stack

An open source alternative to GitHub Copilot

8 followers

An open source alternative to GitHub Copilot

8 followers

Captain Stack is a VSCode extension, helps you to find snippets of code from StackOverflow right from your editor. You need to use VSCode Insider (the latest/non-stable VSCode). VSCode Insider is available at https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/

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ClickGum

Hunter

Github CoPilot is still in early access and I am waitlisted. I found this alternative that uses StackOverFlow to find code snippets right in the VSCode. Kudos to the Maker for making this so fast.

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5yr ago

GasbyAI

Maker

@harishgarg Much appriciate for hunting the product Harish!

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5yr ago

@harishgarg This looks very promising!

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5yr ago

Kudos!!! Github Copilot is said to be wider access end summer. I believe it doesnt test the code it suggests, as far as i understand it is being trained by early-access tech preview users ATM. (performance suggestions accepted dismissed) So Github Copilot does not use stack overflow as a database where as Captain Stack does?

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5yr ago

GasbyAI

Maker

@zurgun Thank you. OpenAI has a huge database. I think they have the results from StackOverflow too. Captain Stack is more like automating what devs sometimes do, which is searching for an answer on Stackoverflow. At the moment, I don't think it has the flexibility to do more than code suggestion/completion

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5yr ago

Pluckd

This might save a lot of time searching for Stackoverflow answers on Google. It's super promising! Will suggest only the snippet of the question/context behind it?

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5yr ago

GasbyAI

Maker

@mrcordeiro Thanks Fernando. The current implementation extract only answers with codes. The snippet is either give the right result or completely something else (i.e when someone gives an explanation, with code demo). Good things about Google is their results are pretty good. If the intent of the search keyword is right, I think there’ll be more right snippets than not

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5yr ago

GasbyAI

Maker

Thanks Harish for encouraging me to launch and hunting the product. I'm not so sure about the future of programming but Copilot would be an interesting one. Too bad that inline completion isn't an official feature of VSCode, which this extension isn't allowed in the VSCode store yet. Hope you have fun and let me know if you have any question or feedback P/s: Captack Stack means you got help from captain Stackoverflow

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5yr ago

Hi, can send a videotutorial about install en visual?

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5yr ago

GasbyAI

Maker

@luis_alvarez4 Hey Luis, I published a video on how to install Captain Stack here https://youtu.be/MD-kzsF0Scg

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5yr ago

@hieussr1 Does the extension work in the normal visual studio code?

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5yr ago

@hieussr1 If you can be more specific on the commands and everything, it would be so much better! The truth is that it is complex, since yesterday even though I follow all the steps it does not work for me. I don't know if it's because of the version of the visual or what happens.

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5yr ago

GasbyAI

Maker

@luis_alvarez4 No, it doesn't.

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5yr ago

GasbyAI

Maker

@luis_alvarez4 The command is included in the video description. If you still have problem setting up, pls DM me on https://twitter.com/hieuSSR, or email hieunc@inverr.com

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5yr ago