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Another amazing new IDE from Google — this destroys VS Code

Wow this is incredible

Wow this is incredible.

Google is getting dead serious about dev tooling — their new Firebase Studio is going to be absolutely insane for the future of software development.

A brand new IDE packed with incredible and free AI coding features to build full-stack apps faster than ever before.

Look at how it was intelligently prototyping my AI app with lightning speed — simply stunning.

AI is literally everywhere in Firebase Studio — right from the very start of even creating your project.

This is Project IDX on steroids.

  • Lightning-fast cloud-based IDE

  • Genius agentic AI

  • Dangerous Firebase integration and instant deploymen

It’s actually based on Project IDX but way better.

All my IDX projects are already there automatically — zero effort in migration.

And it looks like they’re going with light theme this time — vs dark IDX.

Before even opening any project Gemini is there to instantly scaffold whatever you have in mind.

Firebase Studio uses Gemini 2.5 Flash — the thinking model that’s been seriously challenging Claude and Grok since a few weeks ago.

For free.

And you can choose among their most recent models — but only Gemini (sorry).

Although looks like there could be a workaround with the Custom model ID stuff.

For project creation there’s still dozens of templates to choose from — including no template at all:

Best,
Tari Ibaba
The Coding Beauty team