I never knew anyone who used Windsurf. These AI acquisitions have been unbelievable(in a bad way). WIX acquired some garbage Lovable.dev clone for 80 million. I think many of us are waiting for this bubble to pop(economy will likely pop too)
if it was better it would have survived.
Not sure how you can claim this when:
1. It is still very much alive, and
2. The whole point GP is making is that what made it better got stripped from it because of the acquisition announcement
There are some alternatives like continue.dev or Jetbrains own AI offering but no Cursor or Claude Code ( Sonnet 3.7/4) you can get through Jetbrains plugin or others, but Anthropic does not provide support same with cursor.
Thanks for the share !
Jetbrains Junie is supposedly the same thing but no Rider and that's my current project so didn't get into that yet.
Windsurf was just disappointingly bad in intellij (like any other plugin I've tried so far)
Never tried Windsurf in it’s recent form but we did evaluate it when it was still called Codeium and everyone liked Copilot better.
I think what Junie does differently it has better context on what the IDE knows or sees , from what files are open or typedefs are loaded, I could achieve some simpler tasks with lesser prompts and less tokens and cycles than with CC or even windsurf.
Jetbrains has the best incentive to integrate deeply I imagine, it has always been question of execution, it seems a fairly robust system.
The biggest problem for me is that I can't link my Claude Pro (or Max) account to it. So now I'm paying for two LLM accounts (even if I used Junie for coding I use Claude for other things, research, etc., so wouldn't drop it).
I am still a paid subscriber but most of my usage is claude code now becaue Windsurf does not Sonnet 4 included in their plan.
I’m not bothered by this news — it’d be pretty shortsighted to assume that any of these disposable AI assistants will continue to exist forever.
...which no one talks about anymore. Okay I guess you have a point.