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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 2 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | 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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danpalmer ◴[12 May 25 05:28 UTC] No.43959899[source]▶
Zed. They've upped their game in the AI integration and so far it's the best one I've seen (external from work). Cursor and VSCode+Copilot always felt slow and janky, Zed is much less janky feels like pretty mature software, and I can just plug in my Gemini API key and use that for free/cheap instead of paying for the editor's own integration.
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xmorse ◴[12 May 25 10:50 UTC] No.43961614[source]▶
I am using Zed too, it still has some issues but it is comparable to Cursor. In my opinion they iterate even faster than the VSCode forks.
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1. DrBenCarson ◴[12 May 25 11:56 UTC] No.43962002[source]▶
Yep not having to build off a major fork will certainly help you move fast
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2. DANmode ◴[14 May 25 08:40 UTC] No.43982294[source]▶
But can they surpass Cursor?