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Same, I kick the tires on Cursor every several weeks wanting to find they've finally crossed some chasm I can't quite explain. But every time, I bounce off the ground-truth that they're forked off vscode, which just isn't for me. I think moving agents to the center of their experience and developing a model that focuses on speed/efficiency over maximum depth is a promising step away from being a spicy vscode fork.

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My company is heavy on Cursor and I still ask them to provide me GitHub Copilot, for the sole reason that Cursor is probably the reason Microsoft had to implement technical enforcement of their TOS on proprietary plugins. Previously, you could use PyLance on VSCodium but now those plugins do not work outside VSCode anymore.

If Cursor (and every other commercial VSCode forks) didn't use MS extension store in the beginning and violate the TOS these might not have happened.

Cursor 3 is a full rewrite. No VS Code

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