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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by koiueo »

samsmith4 wrote: post #223
koiueo wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

From the top of my head in no specific order

- Icons on the toolbar in the left panel have no labels or even tooltips. No way to know what they do without clicking and checking.

- Space in the file explorer in the left panel opens a file (haven't noticed such behavior in other editors -- totally unexpected).

- Maybe that's the artifact of me installing Vim plugin, but Keyboard shortcuts displayed in the main menu don't do what they say they do.

- It often offers installing some plugins, and I've absolutely no idea why, and what will happen if I do or if I don't.

I'm talking about Cursor, which I assume is exactly like VS Code. Tried VS Code only once very long ago.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by bobsomers »

Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later after said promoted person moves on to something else.

Why would I even bother getting mildly invested in this when the product launch/promotion incentive structure at Google is so well known?

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by halflife »

mentalgear wrote: post #130
craftkiller wrote: post #27

I don't get it. It's a completely blank web page. Did they not test in firefox? Ah Google misconfigured their web server: > Loading module from “ https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js ” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”). Edit: And a couple minutes later, it is now working. Guess Google is reading HN.

Honestly, the full page doesn't give you much more. Not a SINGLE product image. All paragraphs about "agentic" blah-blah you have read 100s of times by now - I do not see how this is anything different from all the other AI VS Code forks, besides that it comes with Gemini from the start.

Seems like they jumped the gun on the website release, the first version I saw was a wall of text, now it has photos and videos. Maybe they have an agentic CICD

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by the__alchemist »

Demiurge wrote: post #245
linhns wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I have much respect for the Zed team as they are chasing originality, not just slap something onto VS Code and call it a new IDE.

I love Zed code. Sad that Sublime Text is not keeping up.

These are two of the fastest editors, and I use both, but I don't think they're for the same thing: Zed is for multi-file projects with moderate IDE abstractions (Worse than Jetbrains; better than most others); Sublime is for editing one-off files with syntax highlighting.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by gloosx »

reads title

Wow was google researching some kind of anti-gravity device behind the curtains for real and then dropped it out of nowhere?

Ah damn, yet another ai-assisted-something. Crap.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by malshe »

ayhanfuat wrote: post #40

On the pricing page it says that for public preview they are offering a free individual plan with "generous rate limits". I gave it an HTML file and asked it to create Jinja templates from it and 2 minutes later (still planning, no additional prompt) I got this: > Model quota limit exceeded. You have reached the quota limit for this model.

I had pretty much the same experience.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by rapnie »

candiddevmike wrote: post #182
kUdtiHaEX wrote: post #107

2020: 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

AIUI the forks are required because Microsoft is gatekeeping functionality used by Copilot from extensions so they can't be used by these agents.

> AI UI

2026: every day ...

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