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by dude250711 199 days ago
Such a dumb name for an IDE, damn...
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People now come up with "cool" names, then the actual products/libraries. This is why I ignore most of them.
I think it's a reference to https://xkcd.com/353/
jetbrains, hadoop, kafka (kaka!?) mongodb... git... it couldve been worse.
"Google Antigravity" makes it worse though. When I first read that I thought it was going to be some kind of quantum computing hype job.

On the other hand, I was thinking the other day what a shitty band name "The Beatles" are in isolation from the music. If the product is good enough it kind of frames the name and makes a bad name completely work.

No, it is named Antigravity because it is meant to push you away from itself.