The New Stack
6/18/2026

Cursor, GitLab and Zed agree GitHub is breaking. They disagree on how to rebuild it.
Short summary
Cursor, GitLab, and Zed publicly critique GitHub's direction and propose competing visions for the next-generation developer platform, signaling growing dissatisfaction among major dev tools. Their disagreement reflects fragmentation in the ecosystem around platform consolidation. Relevant for founders and product teams evaluating platform strategy.
- •Three major developer tools contest GitHub's current direction
- •Competing proposals for rebuilding the developer platform
- •Signals potential ecosystem shift and platform fragmentation
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