I develop Unity games, and I believe Rider’s support for Unity is far superior to that of the VS Code platform. I understand that some features might not work perfectly within Rider as a plugin rather than as a standalone Cursor platform. However, basic operations such as indexing, reading, writing, deleting, and creating folders should pose no problems.
File and section changes already work with JetBrains’ own AI plugin, which functions similarly to how Cursor operates. That said, the in-house AI from JetBrains is considerably inferior to Cursor—I couldn’t even get the autocomplete to work properly with it.
Currently, I keep both Rider and Cursor open. While GitHub Copilot’s autocomplete is acceptable, I sometimes switch to Cursor for specific tasks because its autocomplete and AI features—especially the agent mode, which I use exclusively—are simply superior.
For convenience, I do 99% of my development work in Rider and only switch to Cursor when necessary, which sometimes makes me question why I even subscribe to Cursor. Integrating a Rider plugin for Cursor would streamline my workflow and significantly enhance the development experience.
For me, this is also something blocking me from using y’all. I find jetbrain’s IDEs extremely powerful for manual editing and their framework support is unparalleled. I’ve tried VSCode in the past and it just isn’t sufficient for me, even with all the plugins. With PyCharm, for example, everything “just works.” I understand that y’all would love to be able to include all those things in your own IDE, but it’s suchhhh a long tail of features that I don’t think that would be reasonable. If y’all could somehow replace Jetbrain’s built-in AI assistant (which is meh at best to me) that would be a match made in heaven.
I would like to also express my strong desire to have a cursor plugin for intellij that offers the same code generation and terminal script integration that cursor offers in vscode.
Rather than recreating all the excellent features of Jetbrain’s IDEs in vscode, it would be most helpful to have cursor inside Intellij et al.
Yes please! I like to work with dual monitor with Cursor on one screen and PyCharm on the other. JetBrains has better semantic capabilities than VS and is thus better at refactoring etc. Vscode is just feature-incomplete in many ways. It would be fantastic to be able to have the best of both world in one.
This thread is so baffling. It’s like none of the people here are developers themselves. Cursor is a relatively early stage startup working in a fairly volatile niche with users that have exceptionally high demands (see: any time anything breaks for even 5 minutes there are hundreds of people angrily complaining threads on the forum). Maintaining and improving the actual product is already a high demand and people want them to just pull an entirely different product out of thin air? Baffling stuff.
Same here.
I use cursor (and sometimes windsurf) as a coding assistant but I’m fascinated by Rider features and support for Unity and it would be amazing to have the best of both worlds. Anyway, as far as I know windsurf can be downloaded as an extension for several IDEs including Rider. Probably the extension doesn’t have the same features of the full editor but at least is something.
+1, I recently purchased Cursor Pro but I only use it for coding, while doing all other tasks in IDEA or GoLand. Constantly switching between them is such a hassle!
I have had a annual perpetual license with JB since 2018 and before this purchased intellij since 2006. They came out with their AI Assistant almost 2 years ago where I purchased a 1 year licence for this. I plan to let my JB licenses expire when they renew in May.
To me Cursor is so integrated with VSCode it would take a lot of effort to even somewhat replicate this in JB. Also JB Development is in Gradle/Kotlin/Java which doesn’t translate well from Electron/JS.
As a JB fan I had no problem switching to VSCode to get Cursor. Would I like a JB plugin, yeah sure but not if it will slow down VSCode/Cursor which is pushing a new build <weekly.
AI Assistant was their attempt and is was nothing more than a chat pane connected to a passable model. I stopped using it within a couple of weeks since I had to copypasta into it all the time and it had no idea about my codebase.
I really love JB but their tools are getting too bloated.
First of all, thanks for setting high standards for AI coding!
But having Cursor integrated with Jet Brains IDEs will be a great option for me and a lot of other users. Right now, I use the Cursor agent to generate some code, and then switch back to WebStorm to finalize and test it. I have tried Cursor once before and was not able to switch to it because of the lack of features compared to WebStorm.
I really try to use Cursor again, but it is a real pain for me. To be honest, I’m considering giving up on Cursor again and using WebStorm + Copilot, even though Cursor’s AI integration is much better. But at this point, not everything can be done with AI and manual coding is still needed. And I’m much more productive using WebStorm than Cursor.
I want to second this request. My company uses Android Studio for Flutter development, and having Cursor’s inference powers available in the editor everyone is already accustomed to would be a great boon for us.
