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Google recently released Antigravity, their own VSCode fork. I tried it because I liked Gemini Pro, which they also gave away for free for students, and I wanted to see how it compared to VSCode. I don’t use vibe-coding or “agentic” coding or anything “cool” like that, but I do enjoy Co-Pilot’s autocomplete features in VSCode, and I was curious to see how Antigravity compared. I tried it on my home machine, and I was quite happy with it. Maybe because it was new, but I found it to be better than Co-Pilot. So I wanted to try it on my work machine, but unfortunately, Antigravity’s Linux installation instructions offered either sudo or the source code. I would have personally liked it best if they offered an AppImage, and I even considered creating one myself (maybe I will write a post about it later). But turns out there was a much easier way to use it. ...

For years, my Python workflow relied on conda for environment and package management, pip for package management, black for auto-formatting, and isort for sorting imports. In places where I couldn’t use conda, such as Digital Research Alliance of Canada (FKA Compute Canada) clusters or own school’s own SLURM cluster, I would use virtualenv/venv to manage my environments and ocassionally, conda-pack when I absolutely needed to use the exact conda environment on a cluster. ...