Kite
Dev tools
code completion
SHOW HN2017
553points
243comments
#17of 2,242 in 2017
Top 1%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
19 positive, 74 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 81 critical, out of 179 comments about the project. Thread score -0.36.
Privacy: 3 for, 42 againstExecution: 1 for, 18 againstDocs: 2 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 3 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive autocomplete and documentation features
From 2 comments
The built-in examples for method use are a really cool feature. I hate having to jump to MSDN, etc just to find an example snippet when the argument comments are unclear.
ayuvar on HNCongrats 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…
tedmiston on HN
Objections
Uploads code to the cloud, a privacy and confidentiality risk
From 4 comments
Curious to try Kite, I started to integrate Kite plugin into PyCharm until I saw they keep our code in the cloud which enables Kite do what it does. I'm not sure how many of them…
rohit33 on HNI straight up cannot use Kite. The "code-to-cloud" functionality means that I cannot use it at work. I would love to use it, but it's a non-starter.
tekklloneer on HNI appreciate people trying to build "cool" products, but the downsides of this are so high that people should heavily consider never using it. Uploading all of your code to the…
nichochar on HNThis seems really great on the first look, but uploading the code is a real issue. It is basically a keylogger
theSoenke on HN
Hard to uninstall; background processes persist on macOS
From 3 comments
How do I uninstall Kite on OSX? It seems you guys keep a Kite Helper and Kite Engine process up that's impossible to quit out of and prevents me from deleting the app.
atarian on HNJust installed it but realized that our code cannot be shared to the cloud with a 3rd party before I open it. So I am trying to delete/uninstall Kite. Been wrestling with…
devy on HNI just spent an awful amount of time trying to uninstall Kite. There were two background processes: Kite Helper and Kite Engine Which showed up on Activity Monitor,and I could…
karsinkk on HN
Setup and documentation are unclear
From 2 comments
Where are the Instructions? okay, so I am excited about this, don't mind some code in the cloud, but I am having trouble with a quick start. Downloaded it, had trouble launching…
inputcoffee on HNOn the pages for plugins (like Atom, Sublime, etc...) you might want a simple "how to install". Took me several minutes of confusion, to realize I should open up Atom and search…
jd20 on HN
Lag and slowness in editors
From 2 comments
I have been using it on sublime. After adding kite is has started lagging, a lot. And that's when I have quite good configuration in my laptop. Hope you look into it
nikhil13 on HNI just spent an awful amount of time trying to uninstall Kite. There were two background processes: Kite Helper and Kite Engine Which showed up on Activity Monitor,and I could…
karsinkk on HN
Requests
Linux support
From 3 comments
The Linux version isn't available still. Is it just on HN or are there very few people now who use Linux as their main dev machine? With some of the build quality of the new Dell…
sidmitra on HNHow close are you to a linux release?
madisonmay on HNNo GNU/Linux support? Well, remind me when you do.
li4ick on HN
Support for more languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, C/C++
From 5 comments
Looks awesome. Congrats on the launch! I'd pay for a Ruby/Rails version of this.
ezekg on HNDo C and C++ and ill pay
stevemk14ebr on HNI hope they add support for Php7 soon. Seems like a very useful add-on.
otto_ortega on HNThis makes me learn python. Any plans for javascript and Vim plugin?
plazma on HNWhat is the timeline for rolling out JavaScript support?
peternicky on HN
Support for more editors such as Vim, Emacs, VS Code
From 4 comments
Are there any plans to support Vim/Neovim ?
pkrefta on HNLooks really cool. Anyone tried to see how it integrates with Emacs?
Philipp__ on HNI'd be interested in trying Kite for JavaScript when it's ready. Most of my company's code base is open source and we do a lot of open source work so Kite could be a nice fit one…
jameside on HNThis looks great. Any plans to support notepad++?
CopyZero on HN
Self-hosted or on-premise version
From 2 comments
I'd love to try this out, it looks amazing. But it's just not acceptable to send all the code to the cloud. I'd love to use a self-hosted version though.
craigds on HNWe really wanted to knock out the core functionality of Kite for Python, and are now exploring on prem deployments of Kite. If this is an important feature for you we'd love to…
adamsmith on HN
Questions
Does it send all code to Kite servers as you type?
From 1 comment
Does Kite still send all your code to Kite servers as you type? I remember that being an issue the last time someone talked about Kite on HN. I'm find with an editor or sidekick…
djsumdog on HN
Does it work offline or behind an HTTP proxy?
From 2 comments
Does the cloud connectivity requirement mean that kite cannot be used offline?
jMyles on HNNot working behind a http-proxy. Dealbreaker for me.
invokesus on HN
Alternatives named
Dash, Velocity, Zeal documentation browsers
From 2 comments
Dash (Mac OS X), Velocity (Windows) and Zeal (Windows/Linux) do something similar. There are plugins for various editors.
partycoder on HNHas anyone tried building something like this, but doing the analysis locally and just pulling from a documentation repository like Dash? I don't like the idea of uploading my…
slang800 on HN
Google search
From 1 comment
Whats wrong with a Google search?
xxcode on HN
Kythe
From 1 comment
Does this have anything to do with Kythe, "a pluggable, (mostly) language-agnostic ecosystem for building tools that work with code"? https://kythe.io/
Scaevolus on HN