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An unexpected Antigravity

An unexpected Antigravity

I confess, when I started using Antigravity I had many doubts, because the new revolutionary editor produced by Google seemed to me like just another clone of Microsoft’s VS Code.1 But as soon as I started using the agentic features of Google Antigravity, I had to change my mind, because there is truly something good there.
Photocopied!

Photocopied!

The video above is the official presentation of Google Antigravity, an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that is not just a simple IDE but is “a new way of working for this next era of agentic intelligence”. I haven’t yet figured out what that truly means, but it surely sounds very smart and up‑to‑date.
Is it still worth learning languages with Duolingo?

Is it still worth learning languages with Duolingo?

Learning a language is hard work: you have to learn vocabulary, study grammar, repeat endlessly. And then, once you know a bit of the language, you have to start reading, listening, speaking with others. In short, it’s no joke. In the past it was even worse. We studied from massive tomes full of rules, made especially to make you hate the language. My high‑school English book dedicated fifteen pages just to the use of the definite article “the”. I never read a single line of that book.