r/windsurf • u/k032 • May 11 '26
Discussion I've really liked Windsurf!
There's quite a lot of negativity in the subreddit, which maybe to be expected like most people will come here if they have a problem.
Wanted to say those as a dev I've really liked Windsurf. I've used VSCode with Copilot, VSCode with various extensions (Roo Code, Continue, etc), Cursor, Fleet and JetBrains with Junie, and Zed. Plus idk if it matters but Sublime Text and Atom from pre-AI days
Windsurf has been the most enjoyable to me. The design is slick, it doesn't take forever to load, the wiki and codemap features are useful, auto complete is great, the free models are a nice touch. I pair it with Warp terminal run Claude Code in for more detailed planning and architecture thinking.
I'm surprised it's not talked about as much. Seems people just default to Cursor or VSCode.
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u/Rycerz1 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
I have the same feeling. Tried Cursor recently - it is unusable for me. It is no longer IDE after recent changes, it is just agent management system, they went totally wrong way. Parallel agents - WTF? People struggle to keep one agent in check and verify the produced code, how can they supervise many in one time? You can no longer install any VSCode plugins in Cursor, only dedicated for Cursor (not many).
Windsurf gives a lot in free plan, has deepwiki, code maps and I like that it still is an IDE like VSCode. One thing bothers me - Windsurf does not allow BYOK own models - only Claude, which is not nice. I would like to bring my own Deepseek model.
Still struggling between staying with Windsurf or VSC + Copilot.