Easier to monetize but more effort spent in keeping up with upstream. Good for extracting money from dumb VCs, bad for users.

Indeed I can't see the point of shipping the "AI first" feature as a whole editor. It seems to me that it should be a feature of any editor, or else I'd like to be convinced by arguments less marketing oriented than those I see on the home page.

It's likely that they changed the UI in a way that stock VSCode does not allow. Extensions can't modify everything.

On the website: "Cursor is a fork of VSCode"

I'm aware. It was meant to convey a tone of confusion - not as a literal question.

It appears to have windows support also?

It does. It prompts me to download for Windows.

I see download options for windows, linux, and mac.

Seems they did some user agent detection. Whoops! Shallow criticism on my end.

Fair call I think, just because I'm on platform A should not preclude me from knowing about cross-platform availability.

And you are not. When I visit the page I see "download for Linux" with an element immediately below for "other".

My only criticism is "other" could be called out more.

(One of the Cursor devs here)

We forked VSCode because we wanted to change the UI in ways Microsoft wouldn't allow (e.g. our Cmd-K isn't possible as a VSC plugin; Microsoft is building their own version and isn't letting plugins use it)