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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 2 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 1.623s | source

Things are changing so fast with these vscode forks I m barely able to keep up. Which one are you guys using currently? How does the autocomplete etc, compare between the two?
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unsupp0rted ◴[12 May 25 08:12 UTC] No.43960674[source]▶
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.

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1. mohsen1 ◴[12 May 25 10:02 UTC] No.43961325[source]▶
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
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2. ziml77 ◴[12 May 25 14:43 UTC] No.43963585[source]▶
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.