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Restart to update again?

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Dear , 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:

  1. Maybe it's possible to have some updates without restarts?

  2. 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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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.

just saw the back to back update as well. Not ideal.


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.

 you are likely right that if 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? 😬

Haha, just like the Arc browser at the beginning.