What is Windsurf AI? Explanation of how to use IDE! Introducing installation methods, Japanese translation, and sample app development procedures

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Windsurf is a next-generation AI integrated development environment (IDE) designed to enhance developer productivity. Integrate AI capabilities into your code workflow to support more efficient development.

Key features

Cascade

AI-powered code assistant
Generate and execute code in a chat format
Smarter complementary features

Memories

Build a deep understanding of your codebase and optimize code completions and suggestions
Maintain project context for more accurate assistance

Source: Youtube (@codeiumdev) https://youtu.be/pOvI02of5oo?si=ovjWIkgC8vyV_Yra

Terminal Integration

Command execution within the IDE
Automatic execution support with Cascade

SSH Support

Secure connection to remote servers

Development Container (Beta)

Dev Containers support to unify your environment

WSL (Beta)

Integration with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Create a seamless development environment on Windows

Windsurf Pricing

For individuals

For Organizations

User prompt credits: Consumed when sending messages using the premium model
Flow action credits: Consumed when calling tools using the premium model

No credit consumption:
All users have unlimited access to Cascade Base, but no user prompt or flow action credits are consumed.

With credit consumption:
If you choose the premium model below, you can use the credits you have.

Source: https://docs.codeium.com/windsurf/models

How to install Windsurf – Mac, Linux, Windows

install

Go to the official Windsurf website and download it from Mac, Linux, or Windows to the environment you want to use.
URL: https://codeium.com/

Specify how you want to set it up.

Select your preferred color.

The Windsurf app is now launched.

Japanese

Next, we will translate it into Japanese. Search for “Japanese” in Extensions and install the “Japanese Language Pack”.

Windows:Ctrl+Shift+P Mac:⇧ ⌘ P Press “Command Palette” to display the “Command Palette” anddisplay type Configure Display Language to filter and display the command. Enter When you press the key, a list of installed languages will be displayed by locale, so select Japanese.

When the Windsurf restart screen appears, select Restart.

Thank you for your hard work. If Japanese is displayed, you’re done.

How to use Windsurf

Type in the prompt area on the right to run it.In this case, enter “clock”.

Once you have confirmed that you can create a folder with the mkdir command, click “Accept”.

When asked for permission, confirm the content and “Accept”.

For example, if you are asked for permission to pip install -r requirements.txt, you will “Accept” as well.

pip install -r requirements.txt is a command to userequirements.txt the Python package management tool pip to install packages listed in bulk.

For example, if you are asked to allow python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt, you will do the same “Accept”.

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt is a command to userequirements.txt the Python package management tool pip to install packages listed in bulk.

Example) python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
If you are asked for permission, you will also “Accept”.

This command performs a series of processes that create a Python virtual environment (venv), activate it, and install packages within that environment.