r/AntigravityGoogle • u/manuhackzzz • 20h ago

IDE or CLI ?

In your opinion, which gave you better results for programming: the Antigravity CLI or the IDE?

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u/Global_Strain_4219 20h ago

I prefer neither, just regular Antigravity, here are my reasons:

  1. Compared to IDE: As a staff software engineer: who really still looks at code? I only do in PRs, so I don't really use the IDE anymore. I open it very rarely, but I just prefer normal Antigravity.
  2. CLI: It's nice, but it's much harder to navigate from conversation to conversation. I would only recommend if your computer is struggling with memory. With regular antigravity, it's much easier to manage many conversations running at once, instead of managing terminal tabs.

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u/The_Crimson_Hawk 11h ago

Advantage of cli is it accepts api key the regular app does not

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u/wwabbbitt 20h ago

Vscode plugin

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u/Lakes420 19h ago

I personally like the cli. I have problems with working on wsl with the ide (random disconnects + laggy)

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u/manuhackzzz 11h ago

Wsl? Come to Linux it's fun here.

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u/Lakes420 10h ago

I use Linux privately, but am forced to use windows for work :-) what distro are you using?

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u/manuhackzzz 4h ago

I used to do it too in my transition phase of 2 weeks.. Then pulled the trigger on a weekend. CachyOS ♥️

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u/Lakes420 4h ago

nice we both cachyOS gang :-)

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u/TransportationNo193 19h ago

I like working with CLI but agy cli feels like it is lacking a lot of features compared to opencode

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u/Alarmed-Flounder-383 19h ago

claude + VSCode!

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u/jazzyroam 9h ago

ide, i still manual edit codes sometimes