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randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

Are they actually cut from the same codebase? The internal version has workspace support and other features cut from Cider I assume

randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

I assume quick change became critique?

randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

No. Antigravity is the public version of jetski which is a VScode fork made by the windsurf team.

randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

Antigravity isn’t supported internally so it’s not an issue.

There is a similar internal product but the agentic part is shared between that and Cider.

randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

Good old capybara

randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

Pretty much. Also it’s not that slow and you can’t just checkout all of g3

randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

There are things people do in Borg that when ported to our own public cloud kills entire regions. Sure you get limited choice but things work at global scale without thought

randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

This is the other way people work at Google. You have a Vm and then connect IDE of choice to it via SSH. But honestly it’s a lot more effort that just using Coder

randomCloudon A History of IDEs at Google

Google employees can’t use antigravity. There is an internal version of it which has an agent which is shared between Cider and it.