[HiPHInch]

How long will the VScode wrapper (cursor, windsurf) survive?

Love to try the Claude Code VScode extension if the price is right and purchase-able from China.

[barnabee]

I don't see any benefit in those VC funded wrappers over open source VS Code (or better, VSCodium) extensions like Roo/Cline.

They survive through VC funding, marketing, and inertia, I suppose.

[danielbln]

Cline is VC funded.

[maeil]

Please give us a source as this does not seem publically verifiable.

[danielbln]

https://cline.bot/blog/talent-ai-companies-actually-need-rig...

[maeil]

Thank you! Very disappointing news.

[tristan957]

VSCode is not open source. It is proprietary. code-oss is however an MIT-licensed project. VSCodium is also an MIT-licensed project.

[bingobangobungo]

what do you mean purchasable from china? As in you are based in china or is there a way to game the tokens pricing

[HiPHInch]

Claude register need a phone number, but cannot select China (+86), and even if I have a account, it may hard to purchase because the credit card issue.

Some app like Windsurf can easily pay with Alipay, a everyone-app in China.