Gemini Code Assist vs. GitHub Copilot vs. Imaginary Programming vs. Cody Comparison Chart

Increase software development and delivery velocity using generative AI assistance, with enterprise security and privacy protection. Gemini Code Assist completes your code as you write, and generates whole code blocks or functions on demand. Code assistance is available in many popular IDEs, such as Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, GoLand, WebStorm, and more), Cloud Workstations, Cloud Shell Editor, and supports 20+ programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, Python, C, C++, Go, PHP, and SQL. Through a natural language chat interface, you can quickly chat with Gemini Code Assist to get answers to your coding questions, or receive guidance on coding best practices. Chat is available in all supported IDEs. Enterprises can customize Gemini Code Assist using their organization’s private codebases and knowledge sources so that Gemini Code Assist can offer more tailored assistance. Gemini Code Assist enables large-scale changes to entire codebases.

Imaginary Programming lets you use OpenAI's GPT engine as a runtime to accomplish things you've never been able to do before in your code. All you do is define a function prototype in TypeScript (without an implementation!), and Imaginary Programming uses GPT to take care of the rest. Use Imaginary programming for any task where human-like intelligence around text is needed. You can install imaginary programming into your current JavaScript and TypeScript projects, or you can try the online Playground to experiment with Imaginary Programming.