VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.
FOAM?
Cursor 1.0
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Re: Cursor 1.0
#12VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.
Have you given the alternatives a genuine test? My experience with Aider (never used Cline) is that it's nowhere near as good
Re: Cursor 1.0
#13I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode.
Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite large for no reason.
Re: Cursor 1.0
#14Is there a good chart somewhere, to compare all the current AI coding CLIs / IDEs / extensions with one another?
this maybe? https://liveswebench.ai/
I don't think you really want to boil this down to a number; there's a whole lot of feature and workflow differences to capture:
* BYO model or not
* CLI, UI, VSC-plugin or web
* async/sync
* MCP support
* context size
* indexed or live grep-style search
There's probably like 10 more.
Re: Cursor 1.0
#15I can’t be the only one for which the Python support in Cursor has been absolutely garbage the past week. I’m super disappointed with Cursor. I wanted to love it
Re: Cursor 1.0
#16VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.
FOAM?
Re: Cursor 1.0
#17VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.
FOAM?
Re: Cursor 1.0
#18I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode. Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite large for no reason.
That's why i use Docker MCP Catalog. One MCP Server to rule them all. more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2L4U7Xq6g
Re: Cursor 1.0
#19I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode. Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite large for no reason.
That's why i use Docker MCP Catalog. One MCP Server to rule them all. more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2L4U7Xq6g
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Re: Cursor 1.0
#20VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.
Have you given the alternatives a genuine test? My experience with Aider (never used Cline) is that it's nowhere near as good
Are you saying Aider isn't as good as Cursor, or that Cursor isn't as good as Aider?