[DanteVertigo]

This kind of tool destroys ones ability to program long sustainable production code. For a novice programmer this has tremendous negative effect on the learning curve. For an experienced programmer this tool is useless, because an experienced programmer will NEVER rely on "popularity" of some code-snippet out there in the wild. Programming is a very intense and deep practice and it is certainly not crafted using this kind of tools. This tool helps people write poor quality code for customers. Makes me wonder, what Knuth would say on this?

[anthnguyen94]

What about experts who are transitioning new languages or technologies? I'd say this tool has tremendous value for them. Also, as long as novice programmers understand the fundamentals (DS, algorithms) something like this won't have a 'tremendous negative effect' on their learning curve.

[DanteVertigo]

In my opinion Kite is promoting "coding by gluing" which certainly gets the job done in our economy but it is not yielding long sustainable code.

[rootlocus]

IntelliJ already has most of what this tool offers (but for java as opposed to python). It has auto-complete, quick access to documentation, quick fix suggestions (such as missing imports, etc.) and many many others not available in Kite at the moment. You wouldn't say IntelliJ "destroys ones ability to program long sustainable production code" would you? Because if you would, you'd be absolutely wrong.

[DanteVertigo]

IntelliJ certainly doesn't do this. IntelliJ and Kite have functionalities in common, which are fine. The other parts of Kite that IntelliJ hasn't, are problematic.