GitHub Copilot vs. Windsurf Editor Comparison Chart

Your AI pair programmer. With GitHub Copilot, get suggestions for whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor. Trained on billions of lines of public code, GitHub Copilot puts the knowledge you need at your fingertips, saving you time and helping you stay focused. GitHub Copilot is available today as a Visual Studio Code extension. It works wherever Visual Studio Code works — on your machine or in the cloud on GitHub Codespaces. And it’s fast enough to use as you type. GitHub Copilot works with a broad set of frameworks and languages. The technical preview does especially well for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go, but it understands dozens of languages and can help you find your way around almost anything. With GitHub Copilot, you’re always in charge. You can cycle through alternative suggestions. The GitHub Copilot coding agent streamlines development by automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, allowing developers to focus on more complex coding.