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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.

> 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.

That's true, but not informative. The underlying question is why they are the most popular.

As far as sodas go though, they are the least interesting