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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by aeroevan »

jonasnelle wrote: post #74
vially wrote: post #25

Thought I'd give it a try and installed the latest version. Application crashes at startup on Linux (Wayland) with: "The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: 'crashed', code: '139')". Probably yet another instance of developers mostly testing and doing quality assurance on macOS/Windows.

Hey, sorry about that! Some AUR packages share cursor in a way that isn't forward+backwards compatible across releases. We recommend using our official AppImage from https://cursor.com/download Alternatively, please use a different AUR package that doesn't have these issues https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cursor-nightly-bin

I am using it on fedora from the yum repo and it's crashing for me too.

  $ rpm -q cursor
  cursor-3.0.4-1775123877.el8.x86_64
https://forum.cursor.com/t/sigsegv-in-zygote-type-zygote-on-...

Apparently if launched with --verbose it works, but that's the same crash I was seeing without the verbose flag

Re: Cursor 3

#152

Post by tyre »

This is a really underwhelming UI for something that is agent-first. It looks like they're mimicking Notion.

The next generation of interfaces are not going to look like an evolution into minimalist text editor v250. This is like people iterating on terminals before building native or web applications.

Re: Cursor 3

#153

Post by tyre »

jFriedensreich wrote: post #80
cetinsert wrote: post #77

CLIs are 100000× better than this non-sense.

No they are not. Tired of this 40 year old terminal setback instead of having real and beautiful GUIs. Its fine for some kind of people but don't think what works for you is acceptable for the other 50% of us.

I agree with you but what they're launching here is not a beautiful GUI. It's minimalist (in a bad way) and not really innovative.

Re: Cursor 3

#154

Post by wahnfrieden »

Cursor seems like far worse value than Codex with a ChatGPT subscription. Doesn't equivalent usage of the $200 subscription cost over $1000? I don't understand why people use it when you can just get multiple Pro subscriptions.

Re: Cursor 3

#155

Post by uduni »

seamossfet wrote: post #11

Man, I wish they'd keep the old philosophy of letting the developer drive and the agent assist. I feel like this design direction is leaning more towards a chat interface as a first class citizen and the code itself as a secondary concern. I really don't like that. Even when I'm using AI agents to write code, I still find myself spending most of my time reading and reasoning about code. Showing me little snippets of…

I guess they are assuming LLMs will just get better and better until youn don't look at code at all.

Ignoring the fact that software will just keep getting more and more complex and interconnected... There will always be a new frontier or code and UX

Re: Cursor 3

#157

Post by dist-epoch »

Uehreka wrote: post #140
pjmlp wrote: post #20

What would all these companies do without Microsoft shipping VS Code as open source, probably still stuck with vi and Emacs. Still curious which ones will survive when the AI gold diggers finally settle.

VS Code wouldn’t have won the mid-2010s editor wars if it was closed source (note that VS Code has not helped MS ramp people up to VS itself). The winner of that war was always going to be an open source editor, it was just Microsoft whose concept won out. Closed source editors like Coda failed to gain traction and even Sublime Text fell eventually. If MS ever decided to discontinue VS Code or relicense it, there wou…

Sublime Text fell because VS Code was just better, not because it was closed source. I switched from Sublime Text to VS Code, and didn't care one bit how open or close either was.

Not saying there aren't people who care, there are, but they are a small minority.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by sushisource »

pjmlp wrote: post #20

What would all these companies do without Microsoft shipping VS Code as open source, probably still stuck with vi and Emacs. Still curious which ones will survive when the AI gold diggers finally settle.

Zed's not a VSCode clone, and it's fantastic and OSS. They don't really have a business model that I see working though, IMO. I pay them purely because I love the editor, but the editor is free. The AI integration is what you pay for, but I just run claude code in a terminal.

Re: Cursor 3

#159

Post by flumpcakes »

I don't understand how this product can be productively useful. It looks like any other AI chat bot, but I remember hearing people speak very positive things about it. What am I missing?

Re: Cursor 3

#160

Post by motbus3 »

Cursor died for me when they star putting limits and time waits everywhere even on more expensive plans.

I totally preferred the other way, but at some point , there is boiler plate or organizations you just want done and it does not make sense to put you waiting minutes a time to confirme few refactors. That literally killed the vibe for cursor to me

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