Another thinly veiled AI product. Yawn.
Project IDX: An experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development
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#12Google is doing its best at announcing AI-related products and services. In the meantime, people have been using competing products for a year or so.
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#13This has "promo packet driven development" written all over it. Zero chance something as random as this is going to get continued support from the company.
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#14This is Google at its 1990s COMDEX/Microsoft Vapourware worst. There is no product to try, no code samples, no documentation. Just an animated GIF of what the experience may be like and a signup link.
There isn't even a single screenshot of what it looks like, either on the linked page or the idx.dev site.
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#15If I already have a Stadia subscription, can I bundle this with it for some savings?
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#16It's very strange how lately new Google product launches always seem to be gated behind waitlists or slow incremental rollouts. Back in the Gmail days that happened for genuine reasons like very real machine capacity constraints, the explosive popularity of the product and so on. But these days Google has so much machine capacity they sell it to other people, and an experimental IDE isn't the sort of thing that's going to experience explosive consumer-scale growth. Presumably the waitlist is for product management reasons but it's an odd choice. Usually products get a spike of interest when first launched which then rapidly evaporates (see Threads, but also e.g. Chrome and Wave had the same issue), and so it's not a good idea to waste that first surge of interest.
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#17I would love if this IDE had first class support for Bazel projects. IDE support is one of Bazel's weaknesses. I feel an IDE focused on polylingual monorepos and their build tooling (Bazel) would do well, as no single IDE works well for that use case. Seems like it would be possible to whip something up using the facilities provided by the language server protocol and Google's Bazel expertise.
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#18idx.dev is the actual for joining waitlist link hidden in this PR
Join
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Registering for the Project IDX waitlist...
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{
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"name": "AW"
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"email": "aw@aw.net"
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"country": "US: United States"
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}
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Success! You're on the waitlist. Stay tuned for updates.
Re: Project IDX: An experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development
#19This has "promo packet driven development" written all over it. Zero chance something as random as this is going to get continued support from the company.
It literally has "An Experiment" written on it.
So yeah, regard it as an interesting plaything; certainly not something that you should get too emotionally or intellectually invested in. Especially given Google's penchant for killing cool things.
Re: Project IDX: An experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development
#20This has "promo packet driven development" written all over it. Zero chance something as random as this is going to get continued support from the company.
Going public with a working title name in the "Project {Keyword}" format isn't a great sign.