The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Cursor wants to write all the world's code (News)
Tue, 03 Sep 2024
The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk's Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing.
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What up, nerds? I'm Jared, and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 2nd, 2024, but delivered to you on Tuesday. We are off by one again as the powers that be in the U.S. of A insist on Monday holidays.
If I'm elected president, I will tackle the issues that really affect the lives of all Americans, like canceling daylight savings once and for all, and moving all federal holidays to Friday, as God intended. Okay, enough dreaming. Let's get into the news. Cursor wants to write all of the world's code.
The team behind Cursor, an AI code editor, made a splash this week announcing their $60 million Series A funding. People are excited about what the editor can do today, which is better than GitHub Copilot, according to some, and what it might be able to do in the future. Quote, already in cursor, hours of hunting for the right primitives are being replaced by instant answers.
mechanical refactors are being reduced to single tabs, terse directives are getting expanded into working source, and thousand line changes are rippling to life in seconds. Going forward, we hope Cursor will let you orchestrate intelligent background workers, view and modify systems in pseudocode, instantly scan your creations for any trace of a bug, and much more. End quote.
One big differentiating factor for Cursor is that it's an entire editor. versus something that you use with existing editors. This could be brilliant, because it lets the team control the entire environment, or it could be foolish, because most devs love our editors, and switching to something else is like changing our identity.
I have Cursor downloaded on my machine, haven't actually played with it yet, but I will probably report back on an upcoming episode of Changelog and Friends. Rugpoles aren't cool, but are they worth it?
Red Monk's Rachel Stevens decided to examine if changing an underlying open source project's license from an OSI-approved license to a proprietary license has a measurable impact on financial outcomes for the commercial entity backing the project. That's not an easy question to answer, but that didn't stop her.
Rachel looked at MongoDB, Elastic, more on them soon, HashiCorp, and Confluence Revenue, MarketCap, and NetIncome over time. Follow the link in your chapter data and the newsletter for the charts for the conclusion, Rachel says. Quote, while in our sample we see revenue grow post-license change... we don't see a notable change in the rate of growth.
We also see very mixed results in company valuation, and there does not seem to be a clear link between moving from an open source to proprietary license and increasing the company's value. Caleb Porzio made $1 million on GitHub sponsors. I remember interviewing Caleb when he had just crossed $100,000 four years ago. Link in the newsletter. Time flies.
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