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Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

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Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#81
This is cool, is the idea to eventually develop a full-blown terminal too?

That seems where most of the value is to me, like you can't just make a 10x car by attaching stickers to an existing one, eventually you are going to need to redesign the whole thing, the same is probably true for terminals too.

Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#82
This is misleading. Fig's completions data files are open-source, but the completion engine that runs the completions is completely proprietary.

That means you contribute free ("open source") completions to them, but the scope and type of the completions is limited by their proprietary engine.

--- YC has pinned the founder comment and made it an impossible to reply to the top-level comment.

They say the most effective forms of advertising are the ones we don't realize are ads. Well, this is an ad.

Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#83

Sign in with your work e-mail?

We ask people to sign in with their work email, so you can share private completions for scripts and internal CLI tools with teammates. (You can use your personal email, if you prefer!)

Thanks, I installed it. Looks like neither Alacritty or Kitty are supported yet.

Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#84
I've been using Fig for months now and it's become a must-have on my machine. I particularly love the git branch, npm package and yarn command autocompletion — my previous zsh plugin didn't have those and I use them all day every day.

Disclaimer: I invested in Fig recently because I'm such a fan.[0]

[0]: https://mxstbr.com/investing

Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#85

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Glad you are liking it! VSCode terminal should be supported out of the box. Go to ◧ > Settings and make sure the VSCode Integration is ticked. (You may also have to restart VSCode.) re Fig's icon: haha yes we could definitely do with a new icon. Our previous icon was an emoji pear (yes a pear, not a Fig) so at least our current one is a step up from that! We take the feedback on board and will investigate some new lo…

Ah, you're right! I am on the "VSCode Exploration" build still from being an early M1 adopter. I guess that version doesn't work -- no idea. I swapped my builds and it's working perfectly, thank you and good luck to you and the team.

Glad to hear - is VSCode exploration the same as VSCode Insiders? If so, I believe we do support this too (However I guess the whole idea of Insiders is it is constantly being updated so maybe our integration recently broke).

If it's different, want to create an issue for us and we'll get to it this week? https://github.com/withfig/fig

Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#86
post #80

Nice website, but I wouldn't switch to this from Fish/Zsh on account of: 1. Cannot identify any killer features above what I already have with forever free tools with much larger support communities. 2. Less trust in you as a YC startup. What if you fail? What if you sell out? 3. Requirement of email. 4. Telemetry and privacy concerns raised by others. 5. Not available for Linux, and I get the feeling that Linux woul…

You summarized my exact feelings about it, especially #1, 4, and 5. I get the feeling that the team hasn't done their homework on potential users and existing solutions.

Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#87

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Thanks! We do need to put in place a proper privacy policy. But we wanted to be transparent with how Fig uses your data (hence what we have currently). You can run `fig settings app.disableTelemetry true` to disable all telemetry except for one daily ping. You also make a good point: in our onboarding we should move our privacy information to before granting accessibility! We will make this more clear

Telemetry being on by default on something like this is going to be hard to pull off. Homebrew has telemetry but it's only for Homebrew commands. This would potentially be for every single command one type in a terminal. It just takes one little bug in the app and who knows what can be sent, maybe passwords and so on.

> Homebrew has telemetry but it's only for Homebrew commands.

It was also more than a little controversial.

Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#88
post #80

Nice website, but I wouldn't switch to this from Fish/Zsh on account of: 1. Cannot identify any killer features above what I already have with forever free tools with much larger support communities. 2. Less trust in you as a YC startup. What if you fail? What if you sell out? 3. Requirement of email. 4. Telemetry and privacy concerns raised by others. 5. Not available for Linux, and I get the feeling that Linux woul…

We started with macOS because I have a background in Swift development. Linux is definitely not an after thought to us!

As for the telemetry concerns, I totally get that. We've tried to strike a balance and it seems like we've got it wrong. This will be fixed in the next update.

Re: Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

#89
post #80

Nice website, but I wouldn't switch to this from Fish/Zsh on account of: 1. Cannot identify any killer features above what I already have with forever free tools with much larger support communities. 2. Less trust in you as a YC startup. What if you fail? What if you sell out? 3. Requirement of email. 4. Telemetry and privacy concerns raised by others. 5. Not available for Linux, and I get the feeling that Linux woul…

Point 2 is how I feel these days. It's hard to trust any low-level (installable) dev tools supported by VCs. Personally, that hard to trust is also moving up the stack, maybe more so because of the increased attacks on the software supply chain vendors (i.e. CodeCov, SolarWinds)
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