The popularity of AI coding tools

Daily Install Trends of AI Coding Tools

This dashboard shows the 30-day moving average of daily install counts in Visual Studio Code of the major AI coding tool extensions. Data was taken by tracking the install counts from the Visual Studio Marketplace everyday since 2022. This is charting *daily* installs, NOT total.

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Source: Bloomberry.com
Cursor Community Discussion

Daily # of Discussions in Cursor Support Forum

This dashboard shows the 30-day moving average of daily discussion posts about Cursor in their support forum. Data was taken from calling the Discourse API to get all posts from the past to today.

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Source: Bloomberry.com
Notes:
  1. Visual Studio Marketplace shows the total installs for an extension. I simply took the total installs at the end of the day, and subtracted it from the total installs at the beginning of the day, for each day.
  2. While Copilot is tightly integrated into VS Code by default, it does not count as an installation until you enable it for the first time: My VS Code IDE does not have it installed when I first open it: https://ibb.co/rKd6tsxy
  3. Discourse API lets you paginate through all of the posts in Cursor's support forum starting from the most recent: https://forum.cursor.com/latest.json?no_definitions=true&order=default&page=0
  4. This dashboard was created with the help of one AI coding assistant: Claude - just plain Claude, not Claude Code :)
  5. If you have any suggestions, or recommendations on what else to track, feel free to email me or connect with me on Linkedin