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Ask HN: Who is still using Windsurf and why?

9 points - yesterday at 7:08 AM


Most devs I know moved to Cursor or Codex. But I still see Windsurf mentioned here and there.

I get why someone might stick with it — JetBrains support, slightly cheaper, decent on large codebases. But after the Cognition acquisition I wasn't sure it had a future.

So genuinely curious, are you still on Windsurf? What's keeping you there? And has anything made you regret not switching?

  • PreciousH

    yesterday at 7:58 AM

    Isn't windsurf now antigravity? because i still used antigravity for a while this year because of how the agent can natively try to test web pages using chrome which helps it find UI bugs,but i use mostly claude code now though

      • miravmehta

        today at 5:50 AM

        They are different. Antigravity is by Google, another one is not.

        • xpnsec

          yesterday at 9:32 AM

          I think Windsurf is to Antigravity as Atom was to VSCode

          • mak8

            yesterday at 8:04 AM

            Wait, they rebranded to Antigravity? I had no idea.

              • coldtrait

                yesterday at 3:18 PM

                The team behind Windsurf was acquired by Google, but Windsurf remains its own independent IDE somehow.

                • mak8

                  yesterday at 8:05 AM

                  Just checked again, still looks like it's called Windsurf to me.