Ben Tossell

Kite 2.0 - The smart copilot for programmers. Now available for Python

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Chad Whitaker
I've been keeping on eye on Kite.com since the launch last year. Excited for the day I receive a Javascript invite 😊
Mike Coutermarsh
@chadwhitaker TIL Chad wants to write more JS
Chad Whitaker
@mscccc I dabble from time to time 😄
Antonio Bustamante
@chadwhitaker @mscccc I can't wait for Javascript support either. We're working on it. Soon :)
Altryne
I've registered along time ago and now installed it. What immediately gave me pause, is the fact that I need to upload ALL MY CODE to the Kite cloud? You're a fairly new company, unlike Github or AWS, why should any company trust you with their code? I'm trying to find some code that's not company specific so I can try this out, but for now, with the upload, without any track record, it's a hard sell for commercial environments.
Antonio Bustamante
@altryne I totally hear you. We care a lot about code privacy and we've added fine tuning so you can choose which code gets sent to the cloud, including .gitignore style functionality, whitelisting, and others. You can see more details here: https://kite.com/security and specific instructions here http://help.kite.com/article/7-w...
Altryne
@antonio_bustamante Thanks for the reply! I just read the blog post on security and move to the cloud, and the /security landing page. I'm still not convinced, since you guys don't have a track-record yet, maybe after this project picks up some traction. Additional thoughts after playing with Kite on some personal projects, the MAIN issues that you solve are behind the PRO-plan and it makes the whole thing useless for free-tier. Autocomplete is nice, but the patterns is the biggest promise I think of this tool, and charging for that, when developers already overpay for IDE and tools, on a yearly basis, seems like a strech personally. If you ask someone to submit their codebase for this thing to work, it seems only fair that the results of that submission would be free for that user.
Richard kim
@altryne @antonio_bustamante This also prevents me from using kite :( particularly that I had to come to producthunt to find out how to whitelist directories and by default it whitelists root
Antonio Bustamante
Hey everyone! I'm Antonio, a designer at Kite. Today we're excited to make Kite for Python available for everyone! Go to Kite.com (http://kite.com/) to download and try it yourself. When we first shared Kite with you, we were overwhelmed by the support and enthusiasm for the product. As we gradually onboarded more users, we ironed out a lot of issues in the product, and since then we've added a ton of new stuff. Here are some of the changes we're most excited about: - Deep editor integrations with Atom, Sublime Text 3, and PyCharm / IntelliJ, working better for smaller screens and blending with your coding workflow. - Fine-grained privacy controls modeled after the .gitignore file format, being able to selectively and precisely decide which files and folders of your codebase Kite indexes in the cloud and which don't. - Data-driven Python type inference engine that uses both classical type inference and statistical analysis of Github data to bring you the best completions available for Python. - Kite for Windows We're looking forward for you to try out! We'll be hanging out here for a while and will try to answer questions, and you can also email us at feedback@kite.com. Antonio
Ben Tossell
Kite was launched last year with over 2k+ upvotes! It is now publicly released to the world and I'll let @asmith talk about the updates
Derek Nuzum
As stated in the email... "Fortunately much of this technology is language agnostic, so support for more languages will accelerate from here." Is there any sort of timeline for other languages? Also, I see that the download states "Download Kite for Python." Will there be separate downloads for different languages or is this simply some wording confusion? Looks great! Been waiting for this for quite some time. Will have to try out with some Python soon.
Antonio Bustamante
@dnuzum Hi Derek! It will be the same software, same download. It's just that it only supports Python now. We have an outline of support for more languages here https://kite.com/languages
Amrith
I signed up when it first launched and I still haven't received my invite. Signed up again, hope I get it this time 🙃
Anthony Da Mota
I have been able to test it on their private beta, and this is awesome. :)
Dre Durr💡
I am loving this. So so so Dope🚬🚬🚬
Jake Gibson
Amazing job guys! The new demo looks great - can't wait for my invite! 😀
Christopher Leach
I can't wait to try this! Literally been waiting a year lol
Alireza Savand
You should go Linux first.
Antonio Bustamante
@alirezasavand We're releasing Linux support very soon :) If you go to https://kite.com/ from your Linux machine, we can notify you when it comes out
Metin Emenullahi
Awesome! Can we use it on Vim?
Pietz Prove
i've been waiting very long for kite. i'm a little disappointed that its python only for now with just 3 editors that are supported. also, i don't see myself signing up for a subscription. what happened to buying software?
Antonio Bustamante
@gopietz Hi Pietz! We're adding more support and more languages soon. I hear you about the pricing, but Kite is not a traditional piece of software that we could sell as a unit for a fixed price. It's backed by constant improvement of our models, most computation is done in the cloud, and it has continuous updates. One example is that we could just not fit all of our dataset in your hard drive, and the computations required to give you information about your code would make your CPU at 100% continuously.
Chintamani Chintadripettai
This is really really cool. Any reason that IPython/Jupyter is not supported yet? Forthcoming?
Erik Torenberg
Congrats @asmith and @antonio_bustamante! What is the most surprising thing you learned since launching last year about how people use Kite?
Antonio Bustamante
@eriktorenberg We've definitely learned a lot! Most importantly, by introducing beta users to the platform, we've been able to prioritize the most important features, where to put all our polishing efforts, and how to better blend with programmers' workflows. It's definitely not enough with providing a better way to code, but we also need to make it easy to integrate into how people currently code. Changing habits isn't easy, so the value needs to be solid and clear.
Szymon Kosok
Looks great. I will try it tomorrow with the PyCharm.
Jacob Trefethen
Congrats to the Kite team, looks great!
Taylor Edmiston
Congrats on the launch! As any early beta user on public code, I was really impressed by Kite and my only concern was ability to use it on private codebases ie, work code. Glad to see that you've addressed that. Does the Sublime integration support packages installed in the current virtual environment (that might not be publicly available)?
Antonio Bustamante
@kicksopenminds Hi Taylor! Thank you! If the virtual environment is whitelisted, it should work! (Details about whitelisting: http://help.kite.com/article/12-...)
Angel Botto
awesome!!! Excited expected for another langs <3
Mike Reina
I'll be keeping an eye for JavaScript as well. Looks very promising. Seems to have the best of Visual Studio, but without the clutter. Great job guys.