So what is Cursor? Chances are you already
know it, but in the end, Cursor is an IDE, an
integrated development environment, with a deep integration
of AI. It comes with AI-powered code
completion and code suggestions as you write
your code. It comes with code generation
capabilities. Most importantly, it comes with a built-in
AI chat and AI agents, which means
you can hand entire tasks or prompts
off to the AI to complete it and you can generate code
across multiple files, for example, to implement new
features into your programs with help of AI.
Cursor is a fork, a copy of Visual Studio
Code, and therefore it shares the same UI in
general, the same features. You can use your existing
extensions that you might be used to from Visual Studio Code
with Cursor, but it then comes with multiple
AI assistance and tools and certain other new features
deeply integrated into it, which altogether make it a
very popular choice for many developers when it comes to
writing code and working on code together with
AI.