I also noticed that Gemini Code Assist chat doesn’t seem to go off the rails as often as some of its competitors, although it doesn’t narrate its “chain of thought,” like some models tuned for complex reasoning tasks can, for example the open-source Alibaba QwQ model and the new DeepSeek R1. Code Assist does say what context it used, at least in the chat window, and you can specify context when you make the query, either by selecting code in the editor or calling it out with an “@“ command.
Gemini Code Assist IDE integrations and programming language support
Gemini Code Assist has fairly extensive programming language support. It was trained on a “vast set of coding examples within the public domain,” and then verified for 22 common programming languages, scripting languages, and query languages: Bash, C, C++, C#, Dart, Go, GoogleSQL, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lua, MatLab, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala, SQL, Swift, TypeScript, and YAML.
In addition to supporting Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs, Gemini Code Assist is available by default in Google’s Cloud Shell Editor, Cloud Workstations, and Cloud Code. Cloud Code, free for all Google Cloud users, provides IDE support for the full development cycle of Kubernetes and Cloud Run applications. Code Assist can assist with the Google Cloud CLI and Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM), both infrastructure-as-code interfaces. It is also available in Firebase, Google databases, and Colab Enterprise.
