Cursor
6 recommend 12 criticize 3 moved to it 6 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“now I’m finding Cursor is even better for my coding stuff.”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
“In 2023 I moved from VS Code to Cursor.”murlax, 2026-08-01original comment ↗
“Switched from Intellij (various) to Cursor because of AI integration”KingOfCoders, 2026-02-13original comment ↗
“they care a lot about developer experience.”xiphias2, 2026-02-02original comment ↗
“I'm a non-technical founder who built an entire SaaS frontend using v0 and Cursor over the past year.”Soerensen, 2026-02-02original comment ↗
“I switched from Copilot to Cursor at the end of 2025, and it was absolute night and day in terms of how the agents behaved.”deanc, 2026-01-07original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“Cursor / SpaceX will just have free rein to just train on your hosted code if you use Cursor Origin.”colesantiago, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“When Cursor hijacked literally every CMD key combo, I got fed up and switched back to VSCode.”murlax, 2026-08-01original comment ↗
“you shipped an app fast with Lovable / v0 / Cursor and it works, but it looks and behaves like the AI default.”jensrusi, 2026-07-01original comment ↗
“I really don’t see what Curor’s value is longer term. Why pay a middle man?”basisword, 2026-06-16original comment ↗
“I’m also not going to use Cursor as xAI plans to acquire Cursor.”dangus, 2026-05-30original comment ↗
“I switched from Cursor to Claude because the limits are so much higher”causal, 2026-04-06original comment ↗
“I switched from Cursor to Neovim and at first I hated Neovim’s poor AI ghost text.”goodoldneon, 2026-03-30original comment ↗
“I wish if cursor, instead of having burnt million $ to something worthless essentially, Could have atleast done this experiment.”Imustaskforhelp, 2026-03-04original comment ↗
“After months of hitting a wall with Cursor and Bolt”enha, 2026-02-25original comment ↗
“switched to VS because Cursor became so annoying every release, pushing their agents down my throat”KingOfCoders, 2026-02-13original comment ↗
“I just switched from running Codex in multiple tabs in Cursor to Ghostty.”archiepeach, 2026-02-02original comment ↗
“with Cursor this bug shouldn't be more than 15 minutes”spaniard89277, 2025-12-01original comment ↗
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Hackers moved from Cursor to
- Cursor → VS Code (2 hackers)
- Cursor → Claude (1 hacker)
- Cursor → Claude Code (1 hacker)
- Cursor → Codex CLI (1 hacker)
- Cursor → Ghostty (1 hacker)
- Cursor → Neovim (1 hacker)
Hackers moved to Cursor from
- GitHub Copilot → Cursor (1 hacker)
- IntelliJ IDEA → Cursor (1 hacker)
- VS Code → Cursor (1 hacker)
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