Comment by a-ungurianu
Comment by a-ungurianu 3 days ago
I’d love a good summary on why Cursor, Void (and I assume other tools) decided to build new editors instead of just extending the incumbents (VSCode extension, Jetbrains plugins).
Is there a technical limitation of the extension APIs or is it easier to “market” a new editor than an editor extension?
While adoption for individuals and small companies might be easy, a lot of bigger places already have other integrations with existing IDEs and displacing those for yet another IDE will be a hard ask
Extracting from cursor team [1]
> VSCode extensions have very limited control over the UI of the editor. Our Command-K and Copilot++ features aren’t possible as extensions. Same for much of what we want to build in the future!
[1] https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-not-a-plugin/2448/2