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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

#51

Seems like I dodged a bullet. When I interviewed there the founder asked very generic questions that may as well have come straight out of an Amazon leadership principles pamphlet. I bet Amazon will be a good fit for them. I feel bad for the employees who likely wanted to work for a startup, not Amazon. I’d be surprised if they got much from the acquihire either.

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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

#53
post #37

Congratulations!? I do hope that means AWS’s ever growing cli commands will be all fig now (or will be)? It’s getting a bit long in the tooth. What about support outside of AWS? Will fig still be as awesome in iTerm2 with what-ever-is-in-%PATH%?

He’s thrilled because it’s good for him, not for the users.

Is it not?

Any venture funded product has a sword of Damocles over its head. After acquisition the company product is much less likely to be shut down in the long run (unless it’s Google).

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

#55
These features are nice, but I've never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them.

I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it's not that I'm not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I've moved away from Emacs to VS Code, and work from more heterogeneous environments instead of being 100% Mac. So these platform-specific thick client apps no longer feel like the way to go.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

#56
post #55

These features are nice, but I've never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them. I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it's not that I'm not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I've moved away from Emacs to VS Code, and work from more heterogeneous environments instead of being 100% Mac. So these pl…

There's no need for a new terminal. Their homepage literally says "IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal".

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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post #8

Wait, this is Autocomplete for $12/month?

Based on their frontpage example videos, it seems to be for Mac users who don't know any better. I don't see anything useful that isn't FOSS already.

Either the FOSS solutions are lacking something or all those corporate customers are fools.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

#59
post #37

Congratulations!? I do hope that means AWS’s ever growing cli commands will be all fig now (or will be)? It’s getting a bit long in the tooth. What about support outside of AWS? Will fig still be as awesome in iTerm2 with what-ever-is-in-%PATH%?

He’s thrilled because it’s good for him, not for the users.

> Existing users will continue to be able to use Fig and will receive ongoing support. What's more, we are now making all the paid Fig Team features completely free.

This sounds like a win for users.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

#60
post #8

Wait, this is Autocomplete for $12/month?

Wait till you learn about Raycast. https://www.raycast.com I've heard a lot of good things about Raycast. I'm very tempted to jump ship from Alfred. Still hanging on.

ive been using raycast on a new computer, i prefer alfred, much faster, and i know the tooling better.
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