Emacs completion: autocomplete or company? [closed]

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I'm new to emacs and I find it hard to make decisions on which extension to choose. Too many choices I say. The same pattern is true when I first started to use linux (choosing a distro, choosing packages to install, etc.)

I'm now faced with the dilemma of choosing between autocomplete and compan开发者_如何转开发y. Both are emacs extensions that provide completion mechanisms for emacs. I may decide to use autocomplete because I think it's much more mature, and because of AutoJavaComplete which requires autocomplete. However, company mode also seems to be good, and some users report that it's much better than autocomplete. It lacks documentation though, which I rather find daunting.

Basically, I just want "intellisensy" completion when writing code. Which among the two is a better choice for this?

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The latest company-mode release is 12 hours old as I'm writing this. Recent work focused on bugfixing, as well as some nice new features.

I encourage you to try it, I think it provides better user experience than auto-complete.

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You can feed company backends to auto-complete, and the compatibility is probably possible in the reverse direction too - so your choice may not be too critical.

What comes out of discussions at the emacs wiki is that CompanyMode is older, and there is at least one mention of bugs in favor of auto-complete. Indeed, it seems auto-conplete is what the cool kids are using these days, and repository on github shows active development. The latest version of company, on the other hand, is nearly 11 months old.