[HN Gopher] Launching Fig
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       Launching Fig
        
       Author : subbz
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-11-19 09:03 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (fig.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (fig.io)
        
       | SebastianKra wrote:
       | Just so you now: using it will require an email.
       | 
       | Unfortunately, it will only tell you that after sending you
       | through a ~3 minute setup process, asking for system permissions
       | and installing a background helper.
        
       | mathfailure wrote:
       | This is not an open source project.
        
       | rmorey wrote:
       | Cheers to the Fig team! Fig has been a game changer for me, and
       | contributing autocomplete backends has been fun and easy. Excited
       | to see where they go
        
       | remoquete wrote:
       | I'm a concerned about telemetry. As someone pointed out, this is
       | not open source; how am I supposed to tell IT this is safe to
       | install?
        
       | cochne wrote:
       | I'm excited to see some innovation on the terminal! This could be
       | really helpful for some of my students using new tools like git
       | for the first time.
        
       | makeitrain wrote:
       | I'm training new developers and they often have to lean the
       | terminal as well. Having some training wheels in there would be
       | awesome. I can see a future where team development environments
       | are highly customized and easy to spin up and onboard new people.
       | Custom apps will be more friendly with this overlay UI.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Nice. But still only MacOS?
       | 
       | VSCode add-on sounds interesting.
       | 
       | Someone at Microsoft get on this acquihire and get it implemented
       | into Windows Terminal/PowerShell or whatever
        
         | patrick91 wrote:
         | I think they mentioned somewhere (maybe on discord) that they
         | also want to support linux and windows. But it is easier to
         | start with one platform, prove the product works and then add
         | support for other platforms (if there's enough demand) :)
        
       | pxtail wrote:
       | Unfortunately in the wake of recent[0] news and overall history I
       | don't feel comfortable at all about making something like this
       | integral part of the terminal and thus giving it access to
       | basically everything?
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       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29245080
        
       | laleshii wrote:
       | Making email collection mandatory seems ludicrous to me.
        
         | unk wrote:
         | Wait till it's out of private beta then.
        
           | robinhood wrote:
           | It's not in private beta. The first phrase of the post
           | literally says "Fig is generally available to the public for
           | download".
           | 
           | Anyway. I agree - requiring an email address to start testing
           | the product made me instantly uninstall this app.
           | Unfortunate!
        
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