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For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported<\/a> outages and performance degradation and, as it drops the ball, Cursor is waiting to pick it up.<\/p>\n The AI startup, which is now officially a part of SpaceXAI<\/a>, launched Origin this week \u2014 a new code hosting platform designed to do all of the things that developers typically use GitHub for: collaboratively work on codebases, browse and edit them, handle pull-requests (edits made by others asking to be added to the main codebase) and store them in repositories.<\/p>\n This seems like a natural next step for Cursor, whose primary focus up until this point has been selling automated web development services through its AI Code Editor<\/a>. Cursor has also said that \u201cagent native\u201d features will soon be available for Origin, although hasn\u2019t shared many details yet. The company also says it is building a wider \u201capp ecosystem\u201d to support broader coding efforts within Origin.<\/p>\n Interestingly enough, using Origin doesn\u2019t require a user to stop using GitHub. Indeed, Origin is designed to allow developers to work alongside GitHub and pass code back and forth between the two in an interoperable manner.<\/p>\n \u201cYour GitHub repos can sit alongside the ones Cursor hosts,\u201d Cursor says in its blog<\/a>. \u201cConnect GitHub to Cursor, pick your org, and you\u2019ll see the repos you can sync. Select one and Cursor pulls it in.\u201d<\/p>\n The launch of Origin coincides with ongoing frustration<\/a> over a perceived dip in GitHub\u2019s services. Indeed, on the same day that Cursor launched its new platform, GitHub suffered a quite lengthy worldwide outage<\/a>. For over six hours, the site\u2019s functions were reportedly<\/a> degraded, with a nearly 20%<\/a> error rate worldwide.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time in recent times when this has happened either. Earlier this year, after a rash of outages, GitHub announced <\/a>new actions to sate unhappy coders as its availability problems seemed to escalate. More broadly, the platform has suffered 257 outages<\/a> over the past year, a recent analysis by LeadDev states. Such persistent issues have led to \u201ca visible exodus of high-profile users\u201d writes LeadDev\u2019s reporter Charles Humble.<\/p>\n Still, if Cursor wants to compete with GitHub, it will have its work cut out for it. According to GitHub\u2019s own metrics, some 180 million developers use its platform<\/a> as of last October. The platform, which was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Microsoft in 2012, continues to be<\/a> the largest source code hosts in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n