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- fosterfriends 3y agoLooks promising - I’m a fan of the general pattern of taking dev tool inventions from big companies (in this case Google) and bringing them to developers everywhere.
- jsnell 3y agoHow are you able to determine whether this is promising? There's no details at all, just vague marketing copy. There's no actual screenshots or videos of how the workflows an interactions work, just mockups. There's no indication of why this would better than the alternative except that it's "AI". I'm sure the web page is enough to populate their waitlist and thus met its foals, but as a HN submission this feels awful. There's just nothing of substanance to talk about.
- flax 3y agoThe feature that I'm most interested in is the ios emulator that will be available through the browser. Dealing with ios development with neither a mac nor iphone is annoying at best. So far, I'm using Flutter and codemagic to do builds, relying on web and android debugging during development, and friends' bug reports through testflight for ios dealbreakers. Being able to debug ios during development would be nice.
- fosterfriends 3y agoI’m a fan of experiments putting editors in the browser, similar to what google does in house.
- lostmsu 3y agoThere are tons of hosted versions of VS Code.
- c7DJTLrn 3y ago[flagged]
- latchkey 3y agoGoogle service that doesn't allow you to join the waitlist with a `+` gmail address.
- anon7331 3y agoIf you have a gmail address, you already failed.
- orliesaurus 3y agoso is this like replit + AI or github codespaces with copilot?
- devmunchies 3y agoWhich is weird because google has a partnership with replit, unless replit has a hand in this project. If not, pretty ruthless.
- justinhj 3y agoreplit has ai
- zoomzoom 3y ago[flagged]
- mdaniel 3y agoit appears the blog post caught traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052694
- andomizeazzz662 3y ago[dead]
- nell 3y ago2025: blog post announcing the end of idx. Sarcasm aside, it's a good rule of thumb to depend on a Google service if it is part of their enterprise suite a la Cloud/Workspace.
- korginator 3y agoThis looks like something that targets independent developers. I know this won't be allowed in my organization. There are so many unanswered questions. Where would the code (or git repo) be hosted? Can we host on-prem? How will Google use our code - to train their AI models, or to make outright clones and keep them forever? What about the T&C and what about privacy? Who can see our code? What prevents Google from just cloning a project that is innovative, since their AI would already have the dataset and code? Would it work like the no-code platforms where you're 100% dependent on those providers to even make your software run? I only see red flags for corporate use. Sure, this may be nice to play with a few ideas, but I would definitely not trust it to host and build production software.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoNo thanks. 1) Not enough details. 2) If it's down, I'm fiddling my fingers. 3) Not everything needs to be online. 4) You going to use my code to train the AI? If not, how do I know you're not. If so, umm, just NO. 5) ETC...
- classicmotto 3y agoGreat, can I run this in docker?
- ppetty 3y agoAs Google products go, this seems very lightly branded. Just the monotone G logo at the bottom. I’m sure they’re not hiding or shying away from ownership but this seems unusual. Also, if Apple did something like this, maybe not web-based initially; how much data would someone need to download to do use an AI code assistant on device only?
- Alifatisk 3y agoWill Flutter be an first-class citizen?