Has Microsoft allowed Cursor to access the VSCode Marketplace? As far as I know, it is against the ToS for any editor other than VSCode to access it.
Probably not. Please suggest to extension authors to dual-publish their extensions to OpenVSX and VSMarketplace. So far all authors I engaged with were happy do to so (except for Microsoft of course, who are the only benefactor of this wallet garden situation).
I find that many of the extensions I use do dual publish. I also dual publish my own extension for people because walled gardens are not cool.
I also have an extension that I dual publish. I was surprised to see it’s getting as many downloads on OpenVSX as on the VSCode marketplace. I’m just glad it’s useful to more people for marginally no cost.
I think Cursor just mirrors the VSCode marketplace on their own servers. They used to have an ugly work around for installing extensions, but now it just works and I see links to https://marketplace.cursorapi.com/ inside of Cursor's extension browser.
Any idea how they got the data? I would imagine that just downloading all the data is also against the ToS.
> I would imagine that just downloading all the data is also against the ToS.
It is.
I use both vsc and cursor, cursor imported automatically all my vsc extensions and settings and theme and everything.
Fortunately most ToS are not legally enforceable, but only amount to a public statement of "we are threatening to block your IP if you do this"
There's an entire mechanism to build custom VSCode based applications right there ready to be used. They did more than could be expected.