[heymax054]

90% of their features could fit inside a VS Code extension.

There are already a few popular open-source extension doing 90%+ of what Cursor is doing - Cline, Roo Code (a fork of Cline), Kilo Code (a fork of Roo Code and something I help maintain).

[wrasee]

The other 10% being what differentiates them in the market :)

[heymax054]

Of course. Are they useful enough though for people to install an entirely new software?

[gkbrk]

Since installing entirely new software is just downloading Cursor.AppImage from the official website and double-clicking on it, it's not a large hassle for most users.

If you're on Arch, there's even an AUR package, so it's even less steps than that.

[bryanlarsen]

appImage is useless for development since it only has access to globally installed development tools and environments.

[gkbrk]

That's not true.

AppImages aren't sandboxed and they can access the rest of the system just fine. After all, they're just a regular SquashFS directory that get mounted into a /tmp mount and then executed from there.

[bryanlarsen]

So you're saying that the Cursor appImage is done poorly? I'd believe that.

[satvikpendem]

Cursor itself is making 200 million a year now so I presume yes.

[Tokumei-no-hito]

I’m curious what the motivation is for all these sub-forks. why not just upstream to cline?