Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

Re:Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal by coltons on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:46PM (#27279915)

Looks really cool, but I would always use zsh-auto-complete. Maybe your market is for people that prefer GUI's over terminal, but like terminal power, or the newer generation of coders who went to code school and are not the older school terminal in the weeds people (sorry for a generalization)

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Re:Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal by brendanfalk on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:12PM (#27280237)

> Looks really cool, but I would always use zsh-auto-complete.

Thanks for this feedback. Would love to dig in a little more here. What is it about Fig that turns you off? Is it the idea of having a GUI in the terminal?

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Re:Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal by arvindamirtaa on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:30PM (#27280453)

I just downloaded it.

It's not so much the GUI in the terminal. I actually think it looks pretty slick. It's what I give in exchange - accessibility permissions are a big no no. And of course, verified email for a CLI utility is pretty much unheard of.

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Re:Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal by coltons on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:03PM (#27385891)

To me I think it is the antithesis of a developer tool. ZSH auto complete works 99% of the time for everything. FIG, while cool, seems more like a capitalistic way to capture developers who like fancy new things, when the open source, free, tried and true works every time. Once again, I dont speak for all devs, and I am an AVID terminal user, so I like to keep things simple, free, and open. This product and why you created it and what you are going to do with it makes me cringe :(

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