This afternoon, while waiting in line for lunch, I discovered a brand new AI programming tool in the AI tech group—Trae, unexpectedly a product launched by ByteDance! As soon as I got off work, I couldn’t wait to rush home to experience Trae. As a domestic IDE tool, it achieves deep integration with AI, boasting powerful features, ease of use, and a user-friendly Chinese interface, perfectly suited to the needs of domestic developers.
Upon trying it, I was directly amazed! With just one line, I realized a complete Snake game, and the overall effect was beyond expectations. At that moment, I truly felt the entrepreneurial spirit of ByteDance come to life, and I was incredibly excited.
What is Trae?
Trae is a native IDE tool deeply integrated with AI, comparable to Cursor.
Currently, it supports direct downloads for Mac systems, while Windows users need to fill out an email application to join the waiting list. Official website: https://www.trae.ai/
Feature Introduction
Trae supports AI Q&A, code auto-completion, agent-based AI programming, project management, version control, and other basic features, while also providing AI programming capabilities through Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o.
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AI Q&A: Chat with AI anytime, explain code, fix errors, and generate comments.
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Real-time Code Suggestions: AI understands code and provides completion and optimization suggestions in real-time.
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Code Snippet Generation: Describe requirements in natural language, and AI automatically generates code.
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Project Development from 0 to 1: Describe project ideas, and AI automatically creates project structure and related files.
Generate a Snake Game with One Line
Trae’s “Builder Mode” is simply amazing. I only used one prompt:“Generate a Snake game using web technology stack”, and achieved a complete game project from scratch.
Effect Display
Game Feature Highlights
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Core Features:
Snake movement (supports arrow keys and WASD controls).
Food is randomly generated, collision detection (with walls and itself).
Real-time scoring and restart functionality.
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Aesthetic User Interface:
Responsive design, supports light/dark themes.
Beautiful button styles and grid backgrounds.
The snake’s head also features dynamic “eyes” effect!
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User Experience Optimization:
Prevents the snake from moving backward.
Food generation positions do not overlap with the snake.
Development Process
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Used Trae to create a Vite project, quickly setting up the development environment.
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AI automatically generated core code, style files, and complete logic, including Canvas rendering, scoring system, and animation effects.
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Finally, launched the development server, one-click to run and preview the game.
Features and Advantages
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User-Friendly in Chinese, Completely Free: Built-in GPT-4o and Claude-3.5 models, no more worries about language barriers.
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Fast Project Building: Building a complete project from 0 to 1 requires no multiple adjustments, suitable for beginners.
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Excellent User Experience: Outstanding interaction details, supports smooth migration from VSCode or Cursor.
User Experience
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I didn’t expect that I could directly realize a simple version of the Snake game with one line. Compared to other AI tools I have used before, this is the first time I experienced a tool that completes the task without errors or additional adjustments to prompts immediately; the user experience is so comfortable. In Builder mode, the speed of building a project from 0 to 1 is fast, and the interaction experience is quite good; I can run it by just clicking the run button.
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Trae supports a Chinese interface and is equipped with the world’s most advanced GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet models. During development, AI accurately understood my needs and explained or answered questions in Chinese, making it an AI IDE perfectly suited for Chinese developers.
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Overall, Trae’s interaction experience and design details are outstanding. If you are a long-time user of Cursor or Windsurf, you can directly switch to it; it integrates many advantages of Cursor, supports importing configurations from VSCode or Cursor, greatly reducing migration costs.
Conclusion
The release of Trae gives domestic developers a powerful and excellent AI IDE tool for the first time. Based on support for Chinese, it also provides free advanced AI models and ultra-fast project building capabilities. Whether for rapid development or exploring AI programming, Trae is worth a try.
If you are also interested in this domestic AI IDE, why not try it out quickly!
Official website: https://www.trae.ai
Documentation Address: https://docs.trae.ai