Daily Install Trends of AI Coding Extensions in vs Code

Today, I built an interactive dashboard that lets you see daily install counts for any of them over time.

The chart shows GitHub Copilot by default, and you can overlay or swap in any of the other 20+ tools to compare. You can also see important dates in each tool's history (pricing changes, major releases, etc.) and how daily installs changed around those dates.

Important caveats:

1) This only tracks VS Code extension installs, not CLI usage or other IDEs like JetBrains.

2) Cursor isn't included since it's a standalone editor (VS Code fork), not a marketplace extension. I added a second chart showing Cursor discussion forum activity as a proxy for its growth.

Obviously not apples to apples, but felt I needed to measure Cursor's growth somehow.

3) This tracks daily installs per day, NOT total installs. Otherwise the charts would be boring and always go to the top and right.

4) The dashboard was coded using an AI coding assistant too. I used regular Claude :)