[HN Gopher] Fig is sunsetting
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Fig is sunsetting
Author : patrikcsak
Score : 91 points
Date : 2024-03-12 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| Cilvic wrote:
| Are there alternatives to fig for linux? Seems like amazon code
| whisperer is macos only.
| killthebuddha wrote:
| Not a direct answer to your question but
|
| > We have several exciting new CodeWhisperer for command line
| features coming in 2024 including support for Linux
| gillh wrote:
| Combination of zsh completions with fzf picker and gh copilot
| for CLIs.
|
| I have a good setup here that you can learn from -
| https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles
| Hammershaft wrote:
| Not explicitly what you're asking for but fish shell gets you a
| long way into what fig was offering for usability improvements,
| but without being a closed source SAAS cloud app laden with
| telemetry.
| LASR wrote:
| I am curious from someone who uses fig every day - what's the
| rundown on its value?
| dr_petes wrote:
| Autocomplete for CLI apps, gui for directory changes, just
| quality of life things.
| nottorp wrote:
| Hmm I'm curious. What does "gui" mean? It yanked you out of
| the command line in a browser or finder?
|
| And was this autocomplete server based or happened locally
| and privately?
| Lalabadie wrote:
| I am/was a daily user. To me it was just very good autocomplete
| on terminal/CLI commands.
| radicaldreamer wrote:
| An interesting pivot but I guess helping devs sync on multiple
| computers was never going to be a big market.
| twp wrote:
| True. There's https://chezmoi.io/ for this, but no commercial
| market for it.
| pvg wrote:
| 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
| rapind wrote:
| It's so interesting to see the full circle of acquisition PR.
| woah wrote:
| Nice. These guys started up, cashed in, sold out, and bro'd
| down all in the span of three years.
| cushychicken wrote:
| You'd be a lot less snarky if it was you getting rich.
| masto wrote:
| Apparently Fig was a terminal enhancement that provided a fancy
| autocomplete system.
| rmorey wrote:
| 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-
| implementation of the Fig UI to use those specs. There is a lot
| of knowledge encoded in there!
| mschrage wrote:
| 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.
| meling wrote:
| Read about codewisperer just now (linked from this article).
| Anyone know how it compares to the warp terminal's AI features?
| causality0 wrote:
| Natural language to command line is the kind of functionality
| people dream about but it seems incredibly dangerous. How can I
| trust it to do what I intend every time? ChatGPT certainly isn't
| good enough as I've learned trying to use it on files I
| thankfully had a backup of.
| akaike wrote:
| Well, who would thought, acquired a few months ago and poof
| FractalHQ wrote:
| Fig was one of the first dev tools that I have been so happy to
| be able to use every day and would gladly pay for. I'm very sad
| about this.
| guessmyname wrote:
| 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 the changes.
|
| Is it because people are delusional or psychopaths trying to make
| other people believe their lies.
| whalesalad wrote:
| https://intersol.ca/news/organizational-culture-and-the-5-mo...
| bluish29 wrote:
| That's sad but expected. I actually had switched and disabled fig
| a few days ago because the app was using a lot of resources and
| probably had some memory leaks and crashed.
|
| I find the autocomplete feature useful. I don't trust the GenAI
| commands even with gh copilot. I really hope that one day we can
| get a tool that will simulate the consequences of a command on
| your particular machine/environment but I admit that would be
| very hard.
| makmanalp wrote:
| Anyone have experience with any options for something that's not
| run by Amazon?
| rmdashrfv wrote:
| They raised at least 2.2M in funding. Then they got acquired. Now
| it's over. I do think it's time we stop pretending that you can
| build a fully-fledged company on top of a developer tool or
| plugin.
|
| Lots of companies like this are going to be struggling in the
| next 2 years.
| gkoberger wrote:
| At $2.2M in funding, they are (likely) on a SAFE. There's no
| board, meaning no real VC pressure. They used that money to
| build... it's not like they were a beloved, widely used
| developer tool ruined by VC money.
|
| It sucks, but to build certain things, you sometimes need
| money. $2.2M isn't a ton - they raised in 2020, so that's
| roughly only (market) salaries for 3 people for those 3 years.
|
| Not everything will work out. But good on Fig for trying, and
| good on Fig for finding a solution that (hopefully?) did right
| by themselves and their team, and good on them for leaving Fig
| open-sourced.
|
| (And to the Fig-ians reading this, congrats :) )
| bananapub wrote:
| when will you, personally, learn to not to bother getting
| invested in products made by people trying to sell their company
| to a FAANGM?
| beretguy wrote:
| Sunsetting before I even knew about it.
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