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bluelightning2k on July 21, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why do Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code do...

Is that even true though? As per another comment Gemini CLI and OpenAI Codex have more stars, and they're both much larger companies.

Then Replit, V0, Lovable are all extremely popular.

I don't have a horse in this race just find it interesting. Your Coke vs Pepsi analogy is a good one though.

neuronexmachina on July 25, 2025 [–]

> As per another comment Gemini CLI and OpenAI Codex have more stars, and they're both much larger companies.

The GitHub repos for Claude Code and Cursor are basically just issue trackers and some examples. I'm actually surprised they have as many stars as they do.

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