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What's Mistral Code and how may it help me as a developer?

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Mistral Code is our AI-powered coding assistant designed to integrate directly into your development environment and boost your productivity across various coding tasks.

It leverages advanced large language models to understand code and provides intelligent assistance.

πŸ”‘ Currently, Mistral Code is available as a VS Code extension and a JetBrains plugin for our premium Enterprise customers. Stay tuned for more integrations or opening to other plans!

Here are some of the key capabilities Mistral Code offers:

Code Completion

Mistral Code can provide you with blazing fast code completions, based on the context of your current code, from single lines to entire blocks of code.

When you start typing, it will automatically suggest completions that match your coding style and the project's conventions, waiting for you to accept or modify them.

Code Generation

Leverage Mistral Code interactive chat interface to design and generate code from simple snippets to entire files from scratch, using only natural language descriptions in context.

Code Translation

Familiar with one language but need to write in another?

Mistral Code can translate your code from one programming language to another, helping you quickly adapt and reuse existing logic or samples you found online.

Code Explanation

Whether you want to grasp a new codebase or simply need to understand a specific function, Mistral Code can explain code in plain English, allowing you to deep dive into the logic and functionality at your own pace.

Code Refactoring

Mistral Code can help you with various tedious tasks, such as renaming variables or functions, extracting methods, inlining code, and more, helping you improve code structure and maintainability.

Code Debugging Assistance

With its deep understanding of code, and direct access to your IDE's console and output logs, Mistral Code can analyze error messages and suggest fixes, helping you identify and resolve issues more efficiently. It can also explain error messages in plain English, making it easier to understand what went wrong.

Code Testing Support

Testing is a crucial part of development, but more often than not, it is a tedious task. Mistral Code can help you with that.

Start generating your tests in your own style in no time, helping you ensure code quality and robustness!

Documentation Generation

No time for writing documentation? Mistral Code is here to help. It can help you generate documentation for your code, such as docstrings, comments, or even drafting README.md files based on the codebase.

πŸ“Œ Even the documentation you're reading right now was generated by Mistral Code!

Commit Message Generation (e.g., /commit)

With its deep understanding of your codebase and the changes you've made, Mistral Code can help you generate commit messages that are concise, informative, and follow best practices.

The /commit command will generate a commit message based on your staged changes, and you can edit it before committing.

No more generic commit messages like "fix bug" or "update code"!

Shell Command Generation (e.g., /cmd)

Let's be honest, we all have our favorite shell commands, but sometimes we forget them, or we don't know the exact syntax.

Mistral Code can generate shell commands for you, based on your current context, or based on your natural language description and copy it directly to your terminal, waiting for you to run it.

No more man sed or stackoverflow tedious searches!

πŸ”‘ This feature is currently available solely in the VS Code extension.

And much more!

Mistral Code is constantly evolving, and we're always adding new features and capabilities to make your development experience even better.

πŸ”Ž Eager to start? Check the following articles to install and get started with Mistral Code! ‡️

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