[lacker]

After doing some VS Code extension development, I don't really understand what this could enable that isn't already possible. You can run arbitrary code on the client side from a VS Code extension, you can run a full web application inside the VS Code UI, you can read and change developers' files in any way you want.

What is Cursor doing that they couldn't do as an extension?

[swyx]

have you tried their cmd+k and Composer experiences? those are new ui paradigms not implementable in extension. native integration that "feels" third party is not going to stand out.

[danpalmer]

What is this Cmd+K / Composer experience? For me Cmd+K is the first hotkey in the multi-key bindings that I believe ship by default. Searching for Composer just suggests the PHP Composer extension that I assume isn't what you mean.

[swyx]

search cursor composer

[astroid]

Thanks, I just found this example and I will definitely be tring this out: https://prototypr.io/post/cursor-composer-cmdi (Not my site or any affiliation, but I guy uses Curser Composer to build a DuoLingo clone pretty quickly with prompt-based editing only)

I'm starting to check this out now: https://cursor.directory/learn

[lacker]

I have tried those, but they seemed like they were just using standard VS Code UI elements. You have text input boxes, decorations of existing text, and additional panels. I guess Cursor is modifying the UI more than the text decoration methods in VS Code allow?