Wait, this is Autocomplete for $12/month?
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Amazon acquires Fig
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Re: Amazon acquires Fig
#62These 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".
I also thought the wrong thing at first since the big front and center title on the homepage says "The next-generation command line."
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#63Is there anything similar for Linux?
Seems like direnv and shell scripts in a shared git repo could be similar:
Re: Amazon acquires Fig
#64"I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! "
That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way
In any event, I'll pass on "the CLI with a subscription that sends telemetry".
Paying hard earned dollars every month for a terminal is something so out of the realm of the possible for me I'm honestly baffled to see this has any customers...
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It means they're abandoning the product IME
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#66These 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…
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
The blog post reads like an acqui-hire, which almost always means the product gets shut down or open sourced and left for dead.
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#68"I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! " That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way In any event, I'll pass on "the CLI with a subscription that sends telemetry". Paying hard earned dollars every month for a terminal is something so out of the…
Amazon buying Fig doesn't imply the team joins AWS.
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#69How does one join AWS?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
No, after acquisition usually the existing product is usually shutdown or phased out while its features are absorbed into some .
With Google, everything has a huge chance of being shutdown, unless its Gmail or Search, but in both of those cases they will also continue to get worse over time.