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Olajide Olaniyan
Olajide Olaniyan

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Easy StackOverflow(ing) with CaptainStack and VsCode

If you're a developer who uses Visual Studio Code, then you know how powerful and versatile this code editor can be. And with the right set of extensions, you can take your coding experience to the next level.

The use of AI in programming has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and we can expect to see even more innovations in the future. Using AI with your dev work is obviously an interesting prospect. The new developers will be those that have learnt how to use AI with their knowledge to performing interesting task.

If you do not feel buoyant enough to get on the GitHub co-pilot train, there are few tools that are equally useful.

I have been testing a few and found CaptainStack to be an interesting tool, however CaptainStack instead of using AI, only sends search queries to Google, gets answers from StackOverflow and Github Gist, and autocompletes them.

You can make quick searches from StackOverflow and Github Gist.

A query for Binary search written in Rust

you make a simple query by using the

//find
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keyphrase and ending the query with a period

(.)
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