VS Code
5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 11, 2025 by Michael Truell · across every show →
Everything said about VS Code, oldest first
Jun 11, 2025 neutral
Truell: Cursor originally built a custom editor before forking VS Code
“We actually initially started by building our own editor from scratch, obviously using lots of open source technology, but not, you know, basing it off of VS code, kind of like how browsers are based off of Chromium. It was a little bit more akin to building, …”
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Dylan Field: Figma does not view Cursor as a competitor
“I really don't think of Cursor as a competitor. I think of them as someone that, I mean, we just launched our MCP server to explicitly make it so that you can get your designs into Cursor and Winsurf and all these other, and VS code, you know, all these great …”
Sep 3, 2025 positive
Truell: Cursor switched to forking VS Code to focus on AI features
“We thought that, you know, VS Code had been developed over the course of 12 years, was one of the earliest TypeScript projects had lots of people on it. Thought, oh yeah, of course, you can kind of spin something up that's just equivalent for the world in, in …”