alt Hacker NewsZed is my goto editor when I'm not vibe coding, but that is rare these days. Their integration with Claude Code, etc really helped, but Antigravity completely pulled me away. And really, since they're catering to the same basic audience, the defaults should be the same as VSCode for most stuff. VSCode but performant would be an excellent pitch for the upcoming consumer RAM deficient world.
Dunno how they plan to get wider extensibility and community support without an embedded JS backend to support the existing Code plugins. That's where the real blocker is.
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Curious: whats your primary programming language and what sort of development do you do ? In my experience with LLMs agentic coding paired with a good IDE works wonders. Its also allows me to surgically write critical bits of code myself while outsourcing boilerplate stuff.
I wonder if the reason that most people don’t agree with me about Antigravity is because you were used to VS Code?
For me, Antigravity is possibly the worst GUI experience I’ve had since Clippy.
It’s completely filled with arcane buttons, prompts that are effectively modal appear in at least 3 different places, it’s constantly… doing stuff, without any reference to where I should focus my attention.
I appreciate Google giving away absurdly generous quantities of tokens for FREE just to get me to use the thing, but I can’t bring myself to, because when I get into the flow of a feature with an LLM, I’m suddenly stuck and can’t figure it out.
It’s like peak Google UI for me.