GitHub Copilot explaining code and translating it from one language to another

GitHub Copilot is already the dog’s bollocks, but I just installed the GitHub Labs extension and my jaw is still open.

Code explanation

This one allows you to highlight a piece of code and get explanations of what it does:

For example:

async function downloadZipFile(downloadUrl) {
  await fs.remove('out/edge');
 
  const file = fs.createWriteStream('edge.zip');
  https.get(downloadUrl, function(response) {
    response.pipe(file);
    response.on('end', async ()=>{
      await fs.createReadStream('edge.zip').pipe(unzipper.Extract({path: 'out/edge/'}));
      await fs.unlink('edge.zip', () => {} );
      const outdir = path.join(__dirname, 'out', 'edge');
      console.log(`Edge files extracted to: ${outdir}`);
    });
  });
}

Turns into:

1. We first delete the ‘out/edge’ folder.
2. We downoad the Edge.zip file from the GitHub release page.
3. We unzip the Edge zip file to the ‘out/edge’ folder.
4. We print a message to the console.

Code translation

You can also highlight a piece of code and it gets translated to another language. For example, JavaScript to PHP.

I am so looking forward to where this is all going!