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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)?
@kicksopenminds Hi Taylor! Thank you! If the virtual environment is whitelisted, it should work! (Details about whitelisting: http://help.kite.com/article/12-...)
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.
@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...
@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.
@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
Congrats @asmith and @antonio_bustamante! What is the most surprising thing you learned since launching last year about how people use Kite?
@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.
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
Hey, congrats on the 2.0 launch! Talked with one of your engineers in person recently and I mentioned how awesome it would be if it supported C# (great for Xamarin mobile and Unity game developers). Will continue to follow you guys!
YOU ROCK GUYS! I LOVE THIS. I've been following it since it's launch, and I'm super excited to use it.
I remember hearing about it a few months ago, and it seems it's starting to deliver on it's promise.
I'll have to wait for Javascript support, but it looks very promising both in terms of improving the developer experience, and help beginners level up!
Keep at it 🙌
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.
@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
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