Would you consider developing an extension for VSCode?

[allrobot]

Would you consider developing an extension for VSCode?

[pettys]

what features do you miss the most from vscode?

On using the IDE for just a few minutes, visible whitespace jumps out as missing, ie, being able to see subtle dots and arrows where there are spaces and tabs.

What extensions do you miss most apart from Prettier and Tailwind?

Most of my UI work is using .vue files, which have a combination of vue-flavored HTML, CSS, and typescript. The Volar extension has a ton of features that assist with this.

When I saw the short description of what Cursor is, my immediate reaction was, Yeaassss, this! especially the ability to describe how one wants a selection to be edited. But my initial impression is the project will have a lot of hurdles to clear if it's going to take on both goals of (1) being a generally useful IDE and (2) incorporating awesome AI features.

[truell20]

Decided to switch to building our editor off of a fork of VSCode! Thinking is this will let us focus on the AI features instead of reinventing the wheel. We thought about a plugin, but think that AI will radically change how we all program and will require a whole new editor experience.

Lmk if you love this change / hate it / have any feedback

(gonna close this so I can sort through open bugs, but please keep the convo going)

[truell20]

what features do you miss the most from vscode?

[samuelbutler]

The extension ecosystem for VSCode has so many essential tools for modern development. I primarily use Neovim as my editor but I still often turn to VSCode for certain tasks because of it's extension ecosystem. Writing Tailwind without the aid of it's VSCode extension and Prettier formatting is painful.

While I appreciate that just building a plugin for VSCode is quite limiting and would prevent Cursor from being a true paradigm shift in how we use text editors, I really think Cursor should explore building it's new editor on top of VSCode's base (or VSCodium's). Just as all new browsers are built on V8 and support Chromium's extension ecosystem, I hope new text editors will follow a similar trajectory because of how essential and difficult to replicate VSCode's extension ecosystem has become.

Extensions aside, a text editor feature that Cursor currently lacks is the ability to set the syntax highlighting format for files. This has been a problem for me particularly when working on Astro projects as its layout files use the .astro file extension and therefore are displayed with no syntax highlighting.

[truell20]

Appreciate the feedback @samuelbutler 🙏 We use Codemirror/Lezer syntax highlighting. If you release a Lezer grammar for Astro, would be happy to include it in Cursor.

What extensions do you miss most apart from Prettier and Tailwind?

[dpkirchner]

what features do you miss the most from vscode?

Being able to search for a file without necessarily typing the full path -- say I have a file in a directory foo/bar/blaz named index.js. In VSCode I can find this by typing foo/index.js(and if there's more than one index.js inside foo/* I can pick from a list).

VCS integration that highlights changes I've made since the last git commit. Configurable tab width display.

Various hotkeys like command-shift-E (go to the explorer pane), command-. (code actions, I use this to trigger eslint fixes).

There's also cases where Cursor's UI says a JS variable is unused while VSCode's UI does not (and to confirm the variable is used). This doesn't always happen (I don't have a solid repro).

[dakang824]

为什么要用vscode，将来在cursor中直接 对AI说 想要什么插件，直接集成，直接用，大道至简

[micahflee]

I like VS Code's format on save, like being able to Python code with black each time I save. I also like that VS Code has a wide variety of extensions, including syntax highlighting for less popular formats. For example, I just wrote some code in terraform in Cursor, but didn't have access to syntax highlighting.

[nahtnam]

Decided to switch to building our editor off of a fork of VSCode! Thinking is this will let us focus on the AI features instead of reinventing the wheel. We thought about a plugin, but think that AI will radically change how we all program and will require a whole new editor experience.

Lmk if you love this change / hate it / have any feedback

(gonna close this so I can sort through open bugs, but please keep the convo going)

I dislike it. I have cursor open but only switch to it to occasionally have it write or edit a large block of code and immediately go back to VSCode. I have VSCode set up exactly how I like it, I'm comfortable with it, and it's not something I'm willing to switch from. Even with the Cursor auto import, it doesn't look or feel the same. FWIW, I'd be willing to pay the same amount of $$$ for a more limited extension experience (as long as it has the same "git diff" style experience)

It would be nice if you all consider refactoring the core experience in a way that you can ship your own editor but also a limited vscode extension