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codota / tabnine-vim

Vim client for TabNine. https://vimawesome.com/plugin/tabnine-vim
https://www.tabnine.com/install/vim
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Upstream improvements? #91

Closed xloem closed 3 years ago

xloem commented 3 years ago

I'm noting that this wonderful free project is a fork of a core upstream free project. Presumably forked to access a non-free service.

For those of us interested in using and contributing to free software, have there been any plans to normalise the work done here into part of the upstream projects?

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bilucodota commented 3 years ago

Hi @xloem thanks for reaching out As you know.. we're working these days to (hopefully) deprecate this project and integrate into YCM naturally See: https://github.com/ycm-core/ycmd/pull/1588

xloem commented 3 years ago

Like many people I am working on a similar project myself. I would love to integrate my work better with the work of others, so we can all build with each other more effectively.

I was surprised in your PR that you added a user-accessible option rather than a new backend, and I get feeling frightened, worried that free software might not be included in everyone's future work. But I'm hopeful that we can at least improve backends like ycmd to provide for new features, such as function body prediction.

Are there further plans on your end? EDIT: do you expect your ycmd backend, that I infer would interact with your api, to be shared with a free license?

bilucodota commented 3 years ago

Reason for the PR being a configuration rather than a new backend - cause it's less invasive, plus ycmd benefits from the option to register new completion providers, an API which is pretty standard nowadays.

The backend itself is open source , however it does nothing much rather than communicating with Tabnine binary.

The binary itself is close source as of today - but note that Tabnine offers (and always will!) a free version.

xloem commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your replies.

By free I meant as in freedom rather than beer, as in e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM .

It's really wonderful of Tabnine to give normal coders access to some of the advanced technology going around. I'm sure we'll all be working to increase the access.