Why hackers moved from Cursor to Neovim
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I switched from Cursor to Neovim and at first I hated Neovim’s poor AI ghost text.”goodoldneon, 2026-03-30original comment ↗
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Cursor vs Neovim
| Cursor | Neovim | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 6 | 10 |
| Hackers who criticize | 12 | 2 |
| Moved away from it | 6 | 3 |
| Moved to it | 3 | 10 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Cursor
“Cursor / SpaceX will just have free rein to just train on your hosted code if you use Cursor Origin.”colesantiago, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“When Cursor hijacked literally every CMD key combo, I got fed up and switched back to VSCode.”murlax, 2026-08-01original comment ↗
“you shipped an app fast with Lovable / v0 / Cursor and it works, but it looks and behaves like the AI default.”jensrusi, 2026-07-01original comment ↗
“I really don’t see what Curor’s value is longer term. Why pay a middle man?”basisword, 2026-06-16original comment ↗
“I’m also not going to use Cursor as xAI plans to acquire Cursor.”dangus, 2026-05-30original comment ↗
Praise for Neovim
“on the whole it has been a good experience with Neovim.”Insanity, 2026-09-27original comment ↗
“and why I moved from Jetbrains Rider to Neovim, and so on.”nozzlegear, 2026-07-01original comment ↗
“This is the reason why I switched from VSCode to nvim (AstroNvim to be specific).”Ronsenshi, 2026-06-28original comment ↗
“I just switched from Doom Emacs to Neovim and my impression of Neovim has been much better.”royal__, 2026-06-15original comment ↗
“neovim offered true color support in the terminal so I switched and stayed with neovim since.”shmerl, 2026-03-29original comment ↗