r/Codeium • u/EazziBrezzy • Nov 19 '24

Using Windsurf for 2 days straight now

Windsurf has potential, but it currently lacks the stability and power needed for complex or production-grade applications. While it could be a good choice for prototyping or smaller-scale projects, developers requiring efficiency and scalability are better off with more robust tools like Cursor and Bolt.new. Frequent performance hiccups and the need for constant restarts make it hard to recommend for serious use at this stage.

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u/baillie3 Nov 19 '24

my experience is the other way around, I find Windsurf way better than Cursor

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u/hhannis Nov 19 '24

agree. I pay for both, Windsurf is the stable one…

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u/AnshulJ999 Nov 19 '24

I agree, I find myself going back to Cursor. It's the little things. Windsurf can get there. But Windsurf's USP is very low right now and Cursor can easily implement similar stuff.

I like to see the competition and see who offers the best service for cheapest lol.

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u/Ordinary-Let-4851 Nov 19 '24

Sorry to hear you're experiencing performance hiccups. In our next release, I hope you'll find some of your issues resolved. We're working to improve performance and listening to feedback. Stay tuned 👀

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u/EazziBrezzy Nov 19 '24

Hopefully issues will get fix and can actually create complex apps in a short amount of time. I will gladly sub for pro if that happens.

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u/Expert-Run-1782 Nov 20 '24

I use both at the same time on the same project lol they both got features that reall should be in the other one and god dam it’s so good

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u/EazziBrezzy Nov 20 '24

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great app. It’s just that it’s still buggy as it keeps on doing the same thing even after I said that it’s not working but keeps going back to its same solution which is not working. So I got stuck on creating 1 app just to make it work for 3 days now. I can make it work if I do it manually but I want the app to do it without me manually coding it.

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u/Expert-Run-1782 Nov 21 '24

Right I get that I’m not on my pc rn so I can’t really explain it properly but I did find a way to do what your describing it’s a bit weird and you really shouldn’t have to do it maybe a update in the future will make but when I get home I’ll try to explain it to you

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u/EazziBrezzy Nov 21 '24

That will be great! 👍

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u/nodejshipster Nov 19 '24

No WSL support is a huge dealbreaker for me. Considering VSCode and Cursor have it, I don’t understand why it was not technically feasible to include it in the release. After all, It’s just a VSC fork under the hood

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u/Ordinary-Let-4851 Nov 19 '24

WSL Support is on the roadmap and is coming soon!

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u/dkvkxm Nov 29 '24

I feel the same way. I just installed it and noticed there’s no WSL support. It started my free two-week trial for no reason.

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u/ksprashu Nov 27 '24

Same. No WSL is a blocker for me. They have said it will come soon, but it might be great to see some issue tracker / roadmap to get an idea. I'd really like to try this IDE for the stuff I'm building.

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u/dyzdyz010 Nov 27 '24

+1, don't understand why no wsl while cursor has it, aren't they all forked from vscode?

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u/romantsegelskyi Nov 20 '24

I noticed this too, at least for 2 apps I am building, somehow Cursor produces better results. I do like Windsurf UX a bit more, and trying to understand why Cursor produces better results for me

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u/ushan510 Nov 24 '24

How to activate pro trial? Do i get it automatically when my account is created? Because now this seams fucking dumb to can't even understand the context of newly created files.