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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by dweekly on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:37PM (#45969429)
There's some irony in that, given how many other companies have "created browsers" that are just Chromium forks and rubbed Google the wrong way.

The intro checklist for Antigravity includes watching VS Code tutorials!

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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by abirch on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:48PM (#45969605)
VS Code is based on Chromium:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/v...

We've come full circle.

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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by breppp on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @01:40PM (#45970223)
Chromium is based on Webkit which in turn is based on KHTML, so maybe KDE needs to develop a cursor clone?
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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by kaufmann on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:14PM (#45970647)
Kursor.
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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by askvictor on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:20PM (#45971512)
Or, for the non-AI version, Kode
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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by gmueckl on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:40PM (#45971719)
Well, Kate has been around as an KDE based advanced text editor for nearly 2 decades now - its base feature set isn't too different from a base VS Code installation. And there's also KDevelop as a more full featured IDE.
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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by zekica on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:23AM (#45977513)
Yeah, Kate is great. New versions integrate nicely with LSPs and while not as fast as Vim it's faster than VSCode and most gnome based code editors.
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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by infthi on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:21PM (#45970732)
Kursor Klone
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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by dsmurrell on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @05:59AM (#45978123)
Get back to reddit! :)
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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by modeless on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @01:34PM (#45970148)
It's a good point, and in fact I went and looked at the original announcement of VS Code and it appears that Microsoft didn't credit Chromium or Electron back then either. I guess big companies are allergic to crediting other big companies.
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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by nightpool on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:23PM (#45973654)
> given how many other companies have "created browsers" that are just Chromium forks and rubbed Google the wrong way

Has there been any indication that these folks are "rubbing Google the wrong way"? I think Chromium, as a project, is actually very happy that more people are using their engine.

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