Cursor Acquires Graphite
graphite.comstraight from the horse's mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327206
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
Maybe merge with the Cursor submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327206
Graphiters in there doing Q&A also
(Re-sharing some thoughts I posted on other HN thread)
Hi all! Graphite cofounder Greg here. I’ve been asked a few times so far why we decided to join.
Personally, I work on Graphite for two reasons. 1) I love working with kind, smart, intense teammates. I want to be surrounded by folks who I look up to and who energize me. 2) I want to build bleeding-edge dev tools that move the whole industry forward. I have so much respect for all y’all across the world, and nothing makes me happier than getting to create better tooling for y’all to engineer with. Graphite is very much the combination of these two passions: human collaboration and dev tools.
Joining Cursor accelerates both these goals. I get to work with the same team I love, a new bunch of wonderful people, and get to keep recruiting as fast as possible. I also get to keep shipping amazing code collaboration tooling to the industry - but now with more resourcing and expertise. We get to be more ambitious with our visions and timelines, and pull the future forward.
I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t think the Cursor team weren’t standup people with high character and kindness. I wouldn’t do this if I thought it meant compromising our vision of building a better generation of code collaboration tooling. I wouldn’t do it if I thought it wouldn’t be insanely fun and exciting. But it seems to be all those things, so we’re plunging forward with excitement and open hearts!
Congratulations, Greg!
Hi! One of the Graphite co-founders here. Happy to answer any questions :)
I made this comment on the Cursor announcement post:
I wonder about this. Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day. Cursor was an interesting IDE a year ago that I don't really see much of a use case for anymore. I know they've tried to add other features to diversify their business, and that's where Graphite fits in for them, but is this the best exit for Graphite? It seems like they could have gotten further on their own, instead of becoming a feature that Cursor bought to try to stay in the game.
Heh, I read Graphite as the monitoring tool[1] and was very confused for a second what they want with that old thing.
I have such fond memories of Graphite's simplicity. Simply hit the server with a metric and value and BOOM it's on the chart, no dependencies, no fuss.
Yeah, "haven't most of the users already moved to Prometheus?" was my first reaction.
Turns out that the name's been re-used by some sort of slop code review system. Smells like a feature rather than a product, so I guess they were lucky to be acquired while the market's still frothy.
I confused it with the design tool and I was confused too lol