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Cursor Capitalizes on GitHub Frustration, Launches Rival Hosting Platform
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.
TL;DR
- Cursor has launched Origin, a new code hosting platform.
- Origin offers features like collaborative coding, pull-requests, and repository storage.
- The platform is designed to be interoperable with GitHub, allowing users to work with both simultaneously.
- The launch comes amid frequent outages and performance degradation reported by GitHub.
- GitHub has experienced 257 outages in the past year, leading to user dissatisfaction.
- Despite competition, GitHub remains the largest source code host with approximately 180 million developers.