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Re: A History of IDEs at Google

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Post by Chu4eeno » Tue, May 19, 2026, 9:37 PM UTC

ajross wrote: post #144

taeric wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My point on the acquisitions was that a surprising amount of their successful software was not made in house. Again, I don't mean it as a knock against them, necessarily. AI is an odd example. For one, a lot of the research there is from acquisitions. Somewhat feeding back to my first point. They also were seen as tripping up on a lot of the current AI race, no?

> My point on the acquisitions was that a surprising amount of their successful software was not made in house. First, that's just not true. Their biggest products by revenue (search/adwords) and biggest stock value driver (AI/Gemini/Datacenters) are clearly in-house creations. But even then, the two biggest "acquisitions" you're probably thinking of are YouTube and Android, acquired in 2006 and 2005 respectively. Wh…

> Their biggest products by revenue (search/adwords) and biggest stock value driver (AI/Gemini/Datacenters) are clearly in-house creations.

... or through acquisitions of doubleclick and deepmind?

Re: A History of IDEs at Google

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Post by compiler-guy » Tue, May 26, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

mcculley wrote: post #320

wmedrano wrote: post #65

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From the user interface perspective though, it does essentially look like you've pulled all of google3 into your disk.

But is it a local disk? The post above says that one uses Chrome Remote Desktop.

It’s not local storage, but a file system that makes it look like local storage. Even on machines with chrome Remote Desktop it is still stored remotely. So remote to the remote.

Re: A History of IDEs at Google

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Post by yencabulator » Wed, May 27, 2026, 7:41 PM UTC

steveklabnik wrote: post #169

richardboegli wrote: post #142

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What tools available to the public would you say is similar to this workflow?

The startup I'm at (ersc.io) is working in this space (version control more than the IDE side of things), because, in my opinion, there just plain isn't any.

FWIW your website is broken in both Firefox and Chrome. Huge rounded black boxes, social media icons larger than the screen, e.g. blog posts get 404 with an XML NoSuchKey error.