In all my years programming, there's been only one feature that I've seen that I consider The Killer Feature of Autocomplete, and I've only seen it in one editor: Emacs.
I don't want to complete with all the other code everybody else in the world has written. I want to complete with the words I wrote in a comment 3 lines ago. Or my README I've got open in another window. Or the JSON config file I was editing. That's my litmus test: can it autocomplete from all my other text? Kite can't.
I played with this online demo, and I actually found it pretty frustrating. It kept trying to replace what I was writing with snippets that other people, apparently, had written. I guess that could be useful when trying out a new library, but the rest of the time, it's just going to get in my way.
I don't want to complete with all the other code everybody else in the world has written. I want to complete with the words I wrote in a comment 3 lines ago. Or my README I've got open in another window. Or the JSON config file I was editing. That's my litmus test: can it autocomplete from all my other text? Kite can't.
I played with this online demo, and I actually found it pretty frustrating. It kept trying to replace what I was writing with snippets that other people, apparently, had written. I guess that could be useful when trying out a new library, but the rest of the time, it's just going to get in my way.