Should you switch from VSCode to Cursor? | by Marc Matterson | Dec, 2024

My expertise utilizing VSCode (GitHub Copilot) and Cursor (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) as a Information Scientist.

As builders, we’re continuously trying to find instruments to boost our productiveness and make coding extra fulfilling. I’ve been utilizing Visible Studio Code (VSCode) for over six years, it has been the go-to built-in improvement surroundings (IDE) for nearly all of the builders I’ve labored with.

In 2023, Cursor (designed by the Anysphere analysis lab) raised $8M from OpenAI and $11M in whole funding as they delivered the message:

Within the subsequent few years, we’d prefer to construct a code editor that’s extra useful, pleasant, and enjoyable than the world has ever seen.

In 2024, many builders started testing or totally transitioning to utilizing Cursor as their major IDE of selection.

The aim of this text is to present you a first-person perspective on my expertise utilizing Cursor and the way I examine it to VSCode. Particularly, I can be discussing how every IDE performs for Information Science when utilizing their respective AI help capabilities.