I've been burned enough by Google Graveyard experiences that this is a hard pass.
Google Antigravity
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#782I've been burned by Google Graveyard enough that this is a hard pass from me.
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It's Windsurf
and also isn't
Except where they left Windsurf strings in it https://x.com/aidenybai/status/1990910907745218889 https://x.com/ibrahimuzn/status/1990887635661791364/photo/1
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#784Nobody is interested in proprietary editors. People only accepted vscode because most of it was open source. AIUI this is a fork of that, but seriously, push out the changes or pass.
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#785I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models: - Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)
Doesn't VScode's inbuilt GitHub copilot already support all of these?
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Same here - completely relate. One thing I’ve noticed though that actually coding (without the use of AI; maybe a bit of tab auto-complete) is that I’m actually way faster when working in my domain than I am when using AI tools. Everytime I use AI tools in my domain-expertise area, I find it ends up slowing me down. Introducing subtle bugs, me having to provide insane amount of context and details (at which point it…
it is absolutely poor skill, or disengenuous at best, for any coder to claim AI tools slow them down lol.
or the complete opposite. Very skilled people with a lot of experience in a specific project. I am like that too at my current job. I've REALLY tried to use AI but it has always slowed me down in the end. AI is only speeding me up in very specific and isolated things, tangent to the main product development.
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15 years ago, every company had its own "BlahBlah Studio" IDE built on top of Eclipse. Now it's VSCode. Meanwhile, JetBrains IDEs are still the best, but remain unpopular outside of Android Studio.
I just checked and I don’t even have the JVM installed on my machine. It seems like Java is dead for consumer applications. Not saying that’s why they aren’t popular but I’m sure it doesn’t help.
Every Java app these days bundles a JVM . It was made easy with jlink like 10 years ago. Only parts of the JVM are included so it’s lightweight.
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#788After the first five minutes of using it on Ubuntu, it crashed with error saying I don't have enough free memory, quick look into system stats proved that wasn't the case.
Anyway, not a great first impression. I guess I'll try again in a few months.
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#789I 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…
The first patch release (released on launch day) says: "Messaging to distinguish particular users hitting their user quota limit from all users hitting the global capacity limits." So, collectively we're hitting the quota, its not just your quota. (One would think Google might know how to scale their services on launch day...)
The Documentation (https://antigravity.google/docs/plans) claims that "Our modeling suggests that a very small fraction of power users will ever hit the per-five-hour rate limit, so our hope is that this is something that you won't have to worry about, and you feel unrestrained in your usage of Antigravity."
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> I don't know what IntelliJ is. It started as a modernized Eclipse competitor (the Java IDE) but they've built a bunch of other IDEs based on it. Idk if it still runs on Java or not, but it had potential last I used it about a decade ago. But running GUI apps on the JVM isn't the best for 1000 reasons, so I hope they've moved off it.
Since you last used IntelliJ "about a decade ago", what do you use instead? > But running GUI apps on the JVM isn't the best for 1000 reasons, so I hope they've moved off it. What would you recommend instead of Swing on JVM? Since you have "1000 reasons", it should easy to list a few here. As a friendly reminder, they would need to port (probably) millions of lines of Java source code to whatever framework/language y…
Notice that INTELLIJ uses its own UI framework, really, which I don’t think has much Swing left in it after all these years. And Kotlin is the main language for a decade now.