Or devs are just different users who care about different things and have different experiences.
replyReminds me of the famous dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 - I don't even know if dropbox still exists in 2026 but i'm still happily using rsync and mailing things around because dropbox has just absolutely never worked reliably for me, unlike my 2007 gmail account.
Likewise, if it were up to me, instagram and any business whose business model revolves around ads would be banned (because ads would be banned because advertisement is harmful in general).
It's fine to care about different stuff, but if you want to understand the valuation of a company, then your experience only goes so far. it's not going to make any sense unless you broaden your scope of interest to the metrics that impact valuation.
replyI don't read OP's post we're talking about ("What's crazy is that a company [...] could be worth more than $60B...") as not understanding, but as disagreeing that our world should work in such a way where this state of affair is even remotely considered acceptable
replyIt's an interesting idea that society should somehow prevent companies valuation being linked to how many people use their product.
replyUnsure how it would work in practice.
But do devs know a which IDE is better? That seems to be a rather important question here.
replyIt's not 'the' most important question.
replyWho are the users? I haven't seen many pro users using cursor
replyCompanies. Single devs can jump around IDEs and TUIs more easily but that’s not what companies tend to do.
reply you've formed an opinion on the value of the company without knowing how many users it has? Kind of proves my point, no?