Who would build something that could be built with something else using a google platform or tool?
Project IDX: An experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development
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#22This 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.
I saw the googleblog.com domain and immediately wrote it off as a future entry on Google Graveyard.
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#23I don't trust Google anymore. They will shut down this "experiment" no matter how successful it becomes.
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#24Maybe at Google everything is an endless sea of complexity. It sure isn't for me, I generally can have a dev environment up & going in a few minutes locally.
The "full stack" Project IDX is suggesting certainly has an endless sea of complexity: Angular, Flutter, Firebase, and Google Cloud, all together in one "full stack application"? Yeah, that is a ton of Google-created complexity to smash together.
Google: We've made our tech stack so complex you need an AI to get started working with it.
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#25> While Google’s been working on making multiplatform app development easier for years – from Angular and Flutter to Google Cloud and Firebase
Yea, and those products are not doing well. It would be nice to see Google focusing on the ship that's already sinking rather than trying to play with a siny new toy.
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#26It'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 goi…
google has a blacklist of countries and individuals, I would imagine
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#27This 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.
This announcement feels like a "well, we're not close to shipping and we don't know if we have the resources to continue, so let's issue a press release and see if we can muster some interest to gauge if we should keep funding this". Or else it's just an announcement to help show that Google is invested in AI.
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#28I don't trust Google anymore. They will shut down this "experiment" no matter how successful it becomes.
It sounds like whatever project you build will be in a GitHub repo, so maybe you could enjoy trying it out while it lasts and switch to some other development environment if needed?
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#29As much as I'd like to have the rug pulled from underneath me in 2 years after investing a ton of resources, no thanks.
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#30It'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 goi…
Apart from Apple, having beta testers seems like pretty standard practice, though? They will inevitably leak it, so you might as well announce it.
One could also make the opposite argument that having beta testers is a way to build hype. It all depends on the situation.