The Copilot team probably thinks of Cursor's efforts as cute. They can be a neat little product in their tiny corner of the market.
It's far more valuable to be a platform. Maybe Cursor can become a platform, but the race is on and they're up against giants that are moving rather surprisingly nimbly.
Github does way more, you can build on top of it, and they already have a metric ton of business relationships and enterprise customers.
A developer will spend far more time in the IDE than the version control system so I wouldn't discount it that easily. That being said, there are no network effects for an IDE and Cursor is basically just a VSCode plugin. Maybe Cursor gets a nice acquihire deal
echelon|1 year ago
It's far more valuable to be a platform. Maybe Cursor can become a platform, but the race is on and they're up against giants that are moving rather surprisingly nimbly.
Github does way more, you can build on top of it, and they already have a metric ton of business relationships and enterprise customers.
woah|1 year ago