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Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, rolls out rival hosting service
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For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers.
Key facts
- The platform, which was founded in 2007 and acquired by Microsoft in 2012, continues to be the largest source-code host in the world
- For over six hours, the site’s functions were reportedly degraded, with a nearly 20% error rate worldwide
- More broadly, the platform has suffered 257 outages over the past year, a recent analysis by LeadDev states
- This seems like a natural next step for Cursor, whose primary focus until this point has been selling automated web development services through its AI Code Editor
Summary
The AI startup, which is now officially a part of SpaceX, launched Origin this week, a new code-hosting platform designed to do all of the things that developers typically use GitHub for: collaboratively work on codebases, browse and edit them, handle pull-requests (edits made by others asking to be added to the main codebase), and store them in repositories. This seems like a natural next step for Cursor, whose primary focus until this point has been selling automated web development services through its AI Code Editor. Interestingly enough, using Origin doesn’t require a user to stop using GitHub. “Your GitHub repos can sit alongside the ones Cursor hosts,” Cursor says in its blog.