Comment by ozim

16 days ago

I am pissed off by people calling Cursor an IDE.

VSCode it is based on is text editor.

AI features are great but it is not IDE.

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throwaway7783  16 days ago

This. I hate VSCode as an IDE and is the reason why I have not used Cursor. I wish Jetbrains actually had some brains to build a better coding agent inside their IDEs (which I think are one of the best out there), but for now Im stuck with codex/cc + Jetbrains IDE

digitaltrees  16 days ago

What do you define as an IDE then? I think something with an integrated terminal, file system and git UI is the essential set for most development.

  • waterTanuki  16 days ago

    IDE ships it's own compiler, debugger, usually some sort of container/container orchestrator and database tool. I.e. the things that separate hobby projects from production ones. VSCode has these things but they're extensions, not build into the editor

    • digitaltrees  16 days ago

      I am not trying to be pedantic, I am really just curious because I’ve never heard someone saying something like vscode isn’t an IDE. I am mostly curious because those of us that write languages like Ruby or python with no compiler that typically debug in the terminal or repl feel like we have an IDE and refer to it as such.

      I also think your characterization about hobby/production fall short. My fastAPI and rails codebases anre definitely not a hobby.

      Thanks for clarifying though. Interesting to hear your perspective.

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  • ozim  16 days ago

    I guess you never got to debug multithreaded applications in Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider.

    Debugging and code navigation are much better in proper IDE. In text editors you grep/search with regex.