Saddle Up, Partner: Copilot Rides into Cursor's Town
"I'm your huckleberry."
Doc Holliday said it with a smirk and a six‑gun in Tombstone. Lately, every campfire gossip column in dev‑town swears that Cursor is the last quick‑draw coder standing, the sheriff nobody can out‑gun. Scroll LinkedIn and you’ll find breathless threads claiming Cursor’s edge is “unbeatable”, that Copilot might as well hand over its badge.
But while the headlines holler, GitHub Copilot has been oiling its six‑shooter in the back room and filing the sights. Today, Copilot saunters through the saloon doors ready to stare Cursor down. The shoot‑out is close, the tumbleweed is rolling, and the only real question is whether your code can keep running when the Wi‑Fi wagon loses a wheel.
GitHub Copilot’s April 2025 roundup plugged most of the gaps that once made Cursor the flashier gunslinger in the IDE corral. The update brought:
- One‑click Smart Actions that rewrite code in place.
- A side‑by‑side diff viewer for AI edits.
- Deep repo indexing backed by Nx’s brand‑new Model Context Protocol server.
- Agent mode that lines up terminal commands and waits for your nod.
- Enterprise privacy controls that keep company secrets locked in the safe.
Cursor still packs a Ghost (offline) mode and a slicker diff pane, yet the distance between the two tools has shrunk to the width of a guitar pick. So holster your editor of choice and let’s see who’s fastest on the draw.