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Does anyone here have a take on why so many people are forking VSCode instead of writing a plugin? Is AI codegen the kind of thing that would be impoasible with a plugin or something?
Does anyone here have a take on why so many people are forking VSCode instead of writing a plugin? Is AI codegen the kind of thing that would be impoasible with a plugin or something?
For example a while back vscode-pets[1] plugin became popular and tried it and noticed that the pet can only live within a window, whether its the explorer section or in its own panel, I thought it'd be more of a desktop pet that could be anywhere within VSCode but apparently there are limitations (https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets/issues/4).
So my guess is that forking VSCode and customizing it that way is much easier to do things that you can't with a plugin while also not having to maintain an IDE/Text editor.
Tangential I know but what a clumsy sounding name
The name "Google Antigravity" was chosen to convey the idea of making the software development process more weightless.
If I write "float exp(float base, float exp){"
Then that is the source code and the rest is generated. Mixing it all up is as dumb as uploading a compiled binary or bytecode to git.
Especially annoying when you are working with other people and you can't tell what they actually wrote and know about.
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…
Oh ffs
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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.
In order to build a web app, you will first need a web app
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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…
One AI workflow I rather like seems to have largely vanished from many modern tools. Use a very dumb simple model with syntax knowledge to autocomplete. It fills out what I'm about to type, and takes local variables and pass them to functions I wanna call. It feels like just writing my own code but at 50% higher wpm. Especially if I can limit it to only suggest a single row; it prevents it from effecting my thought p…
> “Google Antigravity's Editor view offers tab autocompletion, natural language code commands, and a configurable, and context-aware configurable agent.”
Is it a typo or was there a reason to add configurable twice?