Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment for building full-stack web and multiplatform apps. It currently supports frameworks like Angular, Flutter, Next.js, React, Svelte and Vue, and languages like JavaScript and Dart, with support for Python, Go and others in the works.
Google did not build a new IDE when it created IDX. Instead, it is using Visual Studio Code – Open Source as the basis of its project. This surely allowed the team to focus on the integration with Codey, Google’s PaLM 2-based foundation model for programming tasks. Thanks to Codey, IDX supports smart code completion, a ChatGPT/Bard-like chatbot that can help developers with general coding questions but also those related specifically to the code you are working on (including the ability to explain it), and the ability to add con...
