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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

kccqzy wrote: post #551
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #503

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 pie…

Turtles.

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Post by lozenge »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #351
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

We need a VS Code fork that just exposes more interfaces, and does nothing else. Then all these forks could just use that with power extensions, and it'd force Microsoft to change its behavior.

There's also Eclipse Che. They wrote a web based IDE from scratch and made it compatible with VS Code extensions but also provided extra APIs.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by tcsenpai »

I was very hyped: maybe Google finally did something new, complete, unifying CLI and IDE, a sort of Claude Code Web but as an efficient, IDE-like, local thing.

Then I installed it and it was a VSCode fork.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by mrweasel »

vovavili wrote: post #465
charliebwrites wrote: post #461

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> It is a vs code fork Google may have won the browser wars with Chrome, but Microsoft seems to be winning the IDE wars with VSCode

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

I wouldn't bet on Google product for anything long-term.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by cleaning »

cjonas wrote: post #766
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…

> Cursor has some real annoying usability issues - like their previous/next code change never going away and no way to disable it. The state of Cursor "review" features make me convinced that the cursor devs themselves are not dogfooding their own product. It drives me crazy when hundreds of changes build up, I've already reviewed and committed everything, but I still have all these "pending changes to review". Ideal…

Committing accepts all changes for me, and has for as long as I can remember.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by big_man_ting »

thelittleone wrote: post #795
r00tbeer wrote: post #789

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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 sugge…

With Ultra I hit that limit in 20 minutes with Gemini 3 low. When the rate limit cleared some hours later, I got one prompt before hitting limit again.

perhaps you were feeding into its the context your whole node_modules folder? :/

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by mrweasel »

rglover wrote: post #171

We have a real, serious problem when even Google (presumably with a large share of the world's engineering might) is just forking VSCode.

Something incredibly weird is going on in the "AI space", everyone seems to believe that they need their own browser and IDE. All of them are just forks of each other, so why aren't they extensions or plugins?

I can't really explain what the issue is, I'd assume it's about lock in, but I don't see a VS Code fork or yet another Chromium browser being something that a person couldn't easily replace with another similar fork, but with a different AI. It that the pitch internally? Lock users into a browser or IDE, so they'll be forced to use a certain AI?

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