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90% of their features could fit inside a VS Code extension. There are already a few popular open-source extension doing 90%+ of what Cursor is doing - Cline, R
by heymax054 1y ago
90% of their features could fit inside a VS Code extension.
There are already a few popular open-source extension doing 90%+ of what Cursor is doing - Cline, Roo Code (a fork of Cline), Kilo Code (a fork of Roo Code and something I help maintain).
- wrasee 1y agoThe other 10% being what differentiates them in the market :)
- heymax054 1y agoOf course. Are they useful enough though for people to install an entirely new software?
- gkbrk 1y agoSince installing entirely new software is just downloading Cursor.AppImage from the official website and double-clicking on it, it's not a large hassle for most users. If you're on Arch, there's even an AUR package, so it's even less steps than that.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoappImage is useless for development since it only has access to globally installed development tools and environments.
- gkbrk 1y agoThat's not true. AppImages aren't sandboxed and they can access the rest of the system just fine. After all, they're just a regular SquashFS directory that get mounted into a /tmp mount and then executed from there.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoSo you're saying that the Cursor appImage is done poorly? I'd believe that.
- satvikpendem 1y agoCursor itself is making 200 million a year now so I presume yes.
- Tokumei-no-hito 1y agoI’m curious what the motivation is for all these sub-forks. why not just upstream to cline?