A 5 syllable name for a product makes me wonder wtf the marketing team is doing.
Google Antigravity
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Google is going to win AI and kill all the other market participants. They have the revenues to support all of this. They spent time learning from all the players and can now fast follow into every market. Now they're fast and nimble and are willing to clone other products wholesale, fork VSCode, etc. They're developing all of this, meanwhile Pichai is calling it a "bubble" to put a chill on funding (read: competitio…
Has Google *ever* successfully entered and taken over an existing market?
Search, browser, Mobile.
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Well it's a helluva lot faster to make for one. For two, just about everyone knows how to navigate in vscode by now. Reducing the barrier of entry has obvious advantages.
I have Cursor at work. The only element of the interface I'm using (and know how to use) is the chat window. IMO, it's an absolutely crappy IDE, crappy editor, with absolutely incomprehensible hostile UI. I have almost two decades of experience with Vim, Emacs and IntelliJ. FWIW, I was able to easily find my ways in helix, kakoune and Zed.
Really? Can you say what you hate it about it pls
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#2242020: every day a new JS framework is announced 2024: every day a new Chrome fork browser is announced 2025: every day a new AI IDE vscode fork is announced
>vscode fork I wonder why they are not trying to fixup something based on their own GUI stacks like Flutter or Compose Multiplatform. It seems only Zed is truly innovating in this space.
These new editors are trying to differentiate themselves via their AI features. Working on the core editor may waste resources that could have been better spent improving the AI features.
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Its clearly a reference to the xkcd comic which does have mindshare.
Thank you for the demonstrating the reasoning that leads to these decisions.
This made me laugh, I assume you are calling me an old fogey and I will be glad to take it. This is why they don't let me near the marketing stuff.
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As somebody who worked on two IDEs which didn't fork VSCode but still used Monaco for code editing views, I think forking VSCode is almost always the right solutions for a new IDE. You get extensions, familiarity and most importantly, don't waste valuable time on the boring stuff which VSCode has already implemented. Nothing bad with using code other people made open. Our whole industry is built on this.
Why the need to fork it instead of creating a new extension? (besides marketing)
Because if they're just an extension they're stuck with whatever rules Microsoft makes up, and Google is no stranger to using this leverage against others.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
>vscode fork I wonder why they are not trying to fixup something based on their own GUI stacks like Flutter or Compose Multiplatform. It seems only Zed is truly innovating in this space.
These new editors are trying to differentiate themselves via their AI features. Working on the core editor may waste resources that could have been better spent improving the AI features.
Until someone finally figures out that we need to rethink editors from the ground up to support different sort of operations and editing experience, to better facilitate LLMs doing work as agents.
But we're probably 1-2 years away from there still, so we'll live with skinned-forks, VSCode extensions and TUIs for now.
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#228This whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that?
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#229MacOS/Safari User here. Stuck on 'Setting Up Your Account' once I've authorized it in the browser. /shrug
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968731 Why can I not authenticate into Google Antigravity? Google Antigravity is currently available for non-Workspace personal Google accounts in approved geographies. Please try using an @gmail.com email address if having challenges with Workspace Google accounts (even if used for personal purposes). https://antigravity.google/docs/faq
I love how being a paying Workspace customer for a decade or more has actually locked me out of so many Google products and features.
Not that I have any desire to try this at this point, but it's always felt ironic.
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#230This whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that?
You wouldn’t. It’s made to suck out investor money and show that google does something, not to actually bring value.
My crystal ball says it will be shutdown next year.