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0 pointsivanjermakov6mo ago0 comments

Why would anyone acquire a company that made a successful VSCode fork or a wrapped Chromium browser? I expect these people making such decisions to be far from understanding tech behind it.

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alberth6mo ago

Cursor is a VSCode fork, generating reported $500M+ in revenue and is only a couple years old.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/cursors-anysphere-nabs-9-9...

Sebguer6mo ago

Yes, and the person you are replying to is clearly referencing Windsurf which was another vscode fork...

Spivak6mo ago

Arc I think graduated from wrapper status, it was a really interesting and unique browser while it lasted.

conradev6mo ago

In The Browser Company’s case, they have a lot of engineers who work on Chromium. Not sure about the other wrapper companies!

nailer6mo ago

Because those companies own the customers.

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