Ask HN: Why do Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code dominate the conversation?

Just curious. So many threads used to be essentially Cursor vs Windsurf, Cursor alone as a presumed champion, and more recently Claude Code.

Basically never hear about Augment Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, etc. which all seem pretty well respected. Or Replit, Bolt which seem to have huge user numbers (not professional devs though which is why I assume they're so under-represented here).


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Created 13d | Jul 21, 2025, 2:20:26 PM


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