Comment by heymax054

Comment by heymax054 7 days 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 7 days ago

The other 10% being what differentiates them in the market :)

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heymax054 7 days ago

Of course. Are they useful enough though for people to install an entirely new software?

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- gkbrk 7 days ago
  
  Since 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.
  
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  bryanlarsen 6 days ago
  
  appImage is useless for development since it only has access to globally installed development tools and environments.
  
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- satvikpendem 5 days ago
  
  Cursor itself is making 200 million a year now so I presume yes.
  
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Tokumei-no-hito 6 days ago

I’m curious what the motivation is for all these sub-forks. why not just upstream to cline?

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