The day before yesterday, ByteDance, the one that stands behind TikTok and CapCut (and what else?), announced a release of the new AI IDE — Trae.
Trae can be considered as a direct competitor of Cursor and less direct but still a competitor of your
IDE + continue.dev. Under the hood, Trae is still based on VS Code, as others, but you do not need to install any addons, and the default configuration looks promising and visually nice 💅.I tried Trae a little the same day and was astonished even before it got to AI. I just opened one of our
JavaScript projects using this IDE and saw that there is a "Testing" tab. IDE defaults allowed it to find the tests in our project, and immediately, without any additional configuration, I was able to run them one be one from IDE and even run 🐛 debug! It was pure
Spring + IntelliJ experience, where things just work from project to project. I have never seen this working by default in the JavaScript projects, where the setup of the project is almost always different.The company behind the product is indeed controversial, and I was surprised that they released such product. We have a tendency to think that TikTok steals our data, and now they suddenly release an IDE. Are they also going to "steal" our code? Most likely the correct question is — are they going to use our code to teach their AI? These questions have no answer. But I still suggest to trying Trae with one of your own projects.
