the most annoying part of our current timeline is that cursor, windsurf, et al are all *FORKS* of vs code and as such are broken in dumb ways. like Vim mode is buggy, or random popular languages don't work right
say it with me:
VS CODE NEEDS TO BE ACTUALLY OPEN SOURCE!!!
the most annoying part of our current timeline is that cursor, windsurf, et a...
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to test out an AI concept in an editor, today you have to fork the whole editor
Github Copilot has UI hooks for a lot of this stuff, but because it's not open source you have to fork the editor to rebuild all those things
like generating/accepting diffs. There's no standard UI hooks for it
Github Copilot has UI hooks for a lot of this stuff, but because it's not open source you have to fork the editor to rebuild all those things
like generating/accepting diffs. There's no standard UI hooks for it
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and if there's no standard hooks, then the only way forward for these guys is to fork the entire editor and stop receiving bug fixes, upgrades, etc. The whole space fragments
you should be able to build cursor/windsurf as a vs code *extension*
if you could, this whole space would explode
you should be able to build cursor/windsurf as a vs code *extension*
if you could, this whole space would explode
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