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Quite a valuation for a VSCode fork. They have no moat.
by hhghkj 1y ago
Quite a valuation for a VSCode fork. They have no moat.
- raffraffraff 1y agoIt's a rented castle, too.
- enlightens 1y agoIndeed. "DID YOU JUST BAN CURSOR?" https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/1909 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/1909 > The error seems very clear to me. Dev Kit is licensed only for use with VS Code, Cursor is not VS Code, ergo it is not licensed to use it. > > Not to mention that only VS Code can use the official plugin registry in the first place. Everything working as intended.
- Keyframe 1y agoAh, good old Microsoft.
- rvz 1y agoExactly. From: [0] >> I know it works as intended. Just curios why Microsoft decided to enforce this all of a sudden. Because they can. Also... >> Did GitHub Copilot just give up on playing fair with Cursor, admitting it's winning? The game wasn't 'fair' to begin with and it was rigged for Microsoft to win anyway. (Cursor being based on VS Code). If you're competing against Microsoft, expect them to race you to zero for years (extinguish) at close to no cost for them. It is all for Cursor to lose if they continue as they are and competitors like Microsoft catch up (and they will do so very quickly whilst lowering prices). [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/1909#issuecomment-2784776197 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/1909#...
- UncleOxidant 1y agoMore like a squatted castle.
- wordpad 1y agoTheir user base is the moat. Same as any network effect business. If all your peers are using a thing, it's really hard to convince entire industry to switch even if something better is available.
- PUSH_AX 1y agoThat’s not a moat when it comes to tooling like this, I can and will cancel my sub when I try something objectively better, there is zero lock in, even if I make a poor choice I can come back. This is not a moat, the fact there are a bunch of companies hot on their heels proves this too.
- madeofpalk 1y agoI don't think user base is a moat, at least not for tooling like this. Switching costs is practically zero, as evidence by how quickly Cursor came up and ate Copilot's lunch. Presumably all of Cursor's users switched away from VS Code or another editor. How did that moat go for them?
- Lalabadie 1y agoEarly adopters are the most fickle version of a user moat I can imagine.
- notfromhere 1y agoWe're talking about an IDE, switching is pretty frictionless.
- solarkraft 1y agoWell, switching IDEs can actually be hard due to all the integrations. But this is VScode to VSCode …
- wrs 1y agoNetwork effect? What network?
- notnullorvoid 1y ago
- kcatskcolbdi 1y agoI want to agree, but whatever they are doing is working incredibly well so far. The results I get from cursor outweigh what I can get from Copilot by orders of magnitude. Maybe long term there's no moat, but you'd think if there were no moat now the folks at Microsoft would be able to compete.
- 0x500x79 1y agoThis is something that I think Copilot is working on fixing actively. I think that they were focused on Agent mode previously, so put less effort into the autocomplete functionality but they are hearing more and more that this is somewhere they need to focus.
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- owendarko 1y agoThere are already VS Code extensions (Cline, Roo Code and Kilo Code) that do the same + are much better IMO. Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers of Kilo.
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