Restart to update again?
Dear @Windsurf, I appreciate the frequent updates. Love seeing a fast moving product. But, the restart-to-update is pretty brutal. There are like 3 updates per week.
I have long running processes in the editor terminal like my development server and rails console. When I restart the editor, I have to manually restart these processes. Some ideas:
Maybe it's possible to have some updates without restarts?
Can you indicate when my local major or minor version is behind the latest? I am no longer willing to restart the editor for most patch updates.
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Product Hunt
I'm not a heavy Windsurf user, but I've definitely hit this as well. I think I've actually had to update just about every time I've opened it.
To add on a request, I actually had 2 back to back updates and restarts yesterday. Would really love to see those all just get handled in one go.
Product Hunt
Purposeful Poop
https://windsurf.com/changelog
based on the change log a lot seem to very small fixes / tweaks.
I’m a heavy user of Windsurf. And while I kind of get the feedback. But as far as I know this is an issue in how Visual Studio Code works. I believe I have the same in Cursor. And by the same with e.g. JetBrains Rider, ChatGPT and just about any desktop software I user
And frequent updates is IMO much more important. Maybe a solution could be to install updates at exit. But I would hate if the solution were to release updates less frequently.
Product Hunt
@thomas_jespersen you are likely right that if @Windsurf could update without restarting, they would. I stand by the idea of indicating in the UI how important the update is. Otherwise, I have become fairly blind to the update UI. Since it's pretty much always there.
With AI going the way it's going. This time next year. We will have 3 updates per day. 😅 Joke aside. I second this. Same with cursor. IMO many of the updates also breaks something inside the app. Maybe time to move fast with out breaking things? 😬
Side Space
Haha, just like the Arc browser at the beginning.