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Re: Fig is sunsetting

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Post by dgellow »

system2 wrote: post #60

Who the hell comes up with these words like "sunsetting"? I was working with a dental company and their software we integrated with our system stopped working. I called the company and asked why and they said "We sunset this product". It took me a while to understand what they were saying then they asked for money because they released a new one. Sunsetting was just a fancy word for a money grab. Wouldn't be easier t…

I don’t believe it’s a new term. It means they are intentionally phasing out or terminating something.

Re: Fig is sunsetting

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Post by kalleboo »

rapind wrote: post #7
pvg wrote: post #5

The related acquisition thread a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296401 Edit: And the Launch HN from March 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819

It’s so interesting to see the full circle of acquisition PR.

See https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com for tons of examples

Lots of fun "there will be no changes or interruptions to the service" followed next month with "we have decided to shut down the service" stories https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/658027964213215...

Re: Fig is sunsetting

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Post by solarkraft »

> CodeWhisperer for command line does not include features similar to Fig Scripts, Dotfiles, Plugins, or Servers and we do not plan to support these features any time soon.

It's rare to see this level of honesty and straight-forwardness. Thanks for that.

Re: Fig is sunsetting

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Post by rightbyte »

guessmyname wrote: post #22

Hahaha, I knew it. We all knew it. Seeing the aftermath of corporate acquisitions, especially in the tech industry, is always interesting. Over my ten years in the field, I’ve seen three companies go through big changes during and after being acquired. It’s funny how companies try to convince everyone that nothing will change, even though it almost always does. People’s reactions range from hopeful to in denial about…

> Is it because people are delusional

Dunno how any dev could rely on some SaaS pay2win autocomplete or the SaaS batch job processor stuff they sold.

Or rely on these kind of companies in the first place.

I mean, sure, pad your resume by making your employer use Best Practice SaaS products, but using Fig seem to be a "don't shit where you eat", messing with your workflow.

edit: Heh reading some launch thread from 3 years ago is hillarous.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31222277

I wonder how many of the yay sayers were shills?

Re: Fig is sunsetting

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Post by prometheon1 »

rmorey wrote: post #12

Having contributed to the Fig autocomplete specs, I find this sad. The Amazon product Fig was built into basically works as replacement, which is good. Still, the core value of this product are the open-source autocomplete specs: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete . What's going to happen to that? It looks like they are still using it in the Amazon product. It should definitely be possible for an open-source re-…

withfig/autocomplete is also used by other projects, who might be in a position to fork if something happens. The ones I know of are:

- https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense

- https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp

Re: Fig is sunsetting

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Post by rmorey »

prometheon1 wrote: post #67
rmorey wrote: post #12

Having contributed to the Fig autocomplete specs, I find this sad. The Amazon product Fig was built into basically works as replacement, which is good. Still, the core value of this product are the open-source autocomplete specs: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete . What's going to happen to that? It looks like they are still using it in the Amazon product. It should definitely be possible for an open-source re-…

withfig/autocomplete is also used by other projects, who might be in a position to fork if something happens. The ones I know of are: - https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense - https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp

oh thank you for sharing this! I knew about warp but didn't realize it was using the autocomplete specs

Re: Fig is sunsetting

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Post by rmorey »

mschrage wrote: post #14
rmorey wrote: post #12

Having contributed to the Fig autocomplete specs, I find this sad. The Amazon product Fig was built into basically works as replacement, which is good. Still, the core value of this product are the open-source autocomplete specs: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete . What's going to happen to that? It looks like they are still using it in the Amazon product. It should definitely be possible for an open-source re-…

The open-source project will continue to be maintained! The open-source autocomplete specs are used by the CodeWhisperer CLI and will be for the foreseeable future.

Thanks Matt, best of luck to the team!

Re: Fig is sunsetting

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Post by einpoklum »

mschrage wrote: post #14
rmorey wrote: post #12

Having contributed to the Fig autocomplete specs, I find this sad. The Amazon product Fig was built into basically works as replacement, which is good. Still, the core value of this product are the open-source autocomplete specs: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete . What's going to happen to that? It looks like they are still using it in the Amazon product. It should definitely be possible for an open-source re-…

The open-source project will continue to be maintained! The open-source autocomplete specs are used by the CodeWhisperer CLI and will be for the foreseeable future.

Where can I read more about the space of FOSS, not-mining-your-data-for-profit, don't-call-home, code completion solutions?
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