Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

Asking HN this is like asking which smartphone to use. You'll get suggestions for obscure Linux-based modular phones that weigh 6 kilos and lack a clock app or wifi. But they're better because they're open source or fully configurable or whatever. Or a smartphone that a fellow HNer created in his basement and plans to sell soon.

Cursor and Windsurf are both good, but do what most people do and use Cursor for a month to start with.

haha so on point! In the HN world, backend are written in Rust with formal proof and frontend are in pure JS and maybe Web Components. In the real world however, a lot of people are using different tech

"The clock app isn't missing! You just have to cross-compile it from source and flash a custom firmware that allows loading it!"

Surely, you're not the only one here that doesn't share the open source extremist views. HN has a diverse user base.

It's frightening how well you called this, if you scroll down the page literally exactly the dynamic that you mentioned is playing out in real time.

I use Cursor and I like it a lot.

"It can't make calls yet because we're waiting on a module that doesn't taint the kernel"

Except for the crowd of extreme purists on HN where the backend is written in their divine C language by programmers blessed with an inability to ever have bugs that make it to production. Ad where the frontend is pure HTML because JavaScript is the language the devil speaks.