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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by kccqzy »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #503
kccqzy wrote: post #421

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Why credit? Come on, the world has moved on from 1990s-era 4-clause BSD licenses. If you recall, the 4-clause BSD license states that all advertising materials must display an acknowledgement. It’s widely considered to be a mistake and nobody uses this license any more. Not because of legal reasons (incompatibility with GPL) but because it is madness to require so many acknowledgements. Stallman was right.

>it is madness to require so many acknowledgements Really? Madness? "We started with VS Code to develop our IDE...". Oh, so onerous. A thank you to the principle developers is a minimum if you're using someone else's work commercially and aren't an asshole. No it's not a legal requirement, it's just about being a good part of society.

Yes, madness. VS Code wasn’t developed entirely by Microsoft. It uses plenty of other open source libraries. Why is it that VS Code should be acknowledged but not the underlying V8 engine, or Chromium, or WebKit or KHTML?

Stallman said that in 1997 there were 75 acknowledgements in a single piece of software. With today’s trend of micro libraries on npm, there will be at least thousands of acknowledgements in one piece of software.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by nurumaik »

pjc50 wrote: post #483
vovavili wrote: post #465

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I wouldn't bet on an Electron app winning anything long-term in the dev-oriented space.

What other UI framework looks as good on Windows, Mac and Linux?

If you want electron app that doesn't lag terribly, you'll end up rewriting ui layer from scratch anyway. VSCode already renders terminal on GPU and GPU-rendered editor area is in experimental. There will soon be no web ui left at all

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by verdverm »

meowface wrote: post #376
dygd wrote: post #286

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The also launched a coding agent Jules: https://jules.google/

Jules is the first and only one to add a full API, which I've found very beneficial. It lets you integrate agentic coding features into web apps quite nicely. (In theory you could always hack your own thing together with Claude Code or Codex to achieve a similar effect but a cloud agent with an API saves a lot of effort.)

Google ADK is real nice and gives you an API as well (also web browser and terminal prompt)

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Post by BakeInBeens »

robinduckett wrote: post #399

Just sits on "Setting Up Your Account" pane and does nothing :)

I'm having the same issue. I thought it was just me or something with their cloud network. I also haven't been able to download Android Studio from the website for a month. I couldn't even download it from my Macbook so probably not the same issue.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by orliesaurus »

Even the launch trailer sucks.

The people at Windsurf who worked on this must be laughing at us driving on their Lambos and Ferraris.

They glued slop together, shipped this and now are in Tahoe drinking Martinis watching the sunset from their private chalets.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by schainks »

throwaway13337 wrote: post #439

I gave it a fair shot. It is a vs code fork. There were some UI glitches. Some usability was better. Cursor has some real annoying usability issues - like their previous/next code change never going away and no way to disable it. Design of this one looks more polished and less muddy. I was working on a project and just continued with it. It was easy because they import setting from cursor. Feels like the browser wars…

I bet if you sign up for Google AI Ultra for a month your limits will disappear.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by HumanOstrich »

nurumaik wrote: post #552
pjc50 wrote: post #483

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What other UI framework looks as good on Windows, Mac and Linux?

If you want electron app that doesn't lag terribly, you'll end up rewriting ui layer from scratch anyway. VSCode already renders terminal on GPU and GPU-rendered editor area is in experimental. There will soon be no web ui left at all

I'm not sure how you went from terminal and editor GPU rendering, which can benefit from it, to "there will soon be no web ui left at all".

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by stack_framer »

That floating chess board was a subliminal message: Your project will teeter, and critical pieces will fall off. You will occasionally make an illegal move as the board annoyingly shifts beneath you.
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