Why Are Developers Pushing Back on Google’s New Antigravity IDE?

Google’s Antigravity IDE recently dropped, and the reaction was immediate.

Many developers believe it looks and feels like yet another VS Code fork, and the discussion quickly shifted from features to a bigger question about ecosystem health.

With so many AI-first editors being built on top of the same codebase, developers are asking whether this trend is empowering or exhausting. Some call it smart reuse. Others see fragmentation, lock-in concerns, and a lack of transparency.

Where do you land? Is this healthy innovation or just another fork adding to the noise?

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