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

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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