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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 3 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.808s | 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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frainfreeze ◴[12 May 25 10:19 UTC] No.43961423[source]▶
Zed doesn't even run on my system and the relevant github issue is only updated by people who come to complain about the same issue.
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1. KomoD ◴[12 May 25 20:51 UTC] No.43967334[source]▶
Windows? If so, you can run it, you just have to build it.
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2. frainfreeze ◴[13 May 25 10:58 UTC] No.43971587[source]▶
Debian latest stable.
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3. KomoD ◴[13 May 25 18:01 UTC] No.43975819[source]▶
Oh, then what's the issue? I'm using Zed on Mint and so far I've only had one issue, the window being invisible (which I fixed by updating GPU drivers)