brendanfalk

I think the real problem here is "decision making" as opposed to "collaboration"

I can't think of a single time where having someone else review my work or give me feedback is a meaningfully bad thing. It's an opportunity to learn. But getting feedback is different to making the final decision.

Instead, the real problem is the either 1) lack of knowing who makes the final decision or 2) requiring everyone must agree to a final decision. You will move a lot faster if you know who the final decision maker is, ideally have fewer (or only one person) making that final decision, and encourage people to make decisions quickly (most decisions are reversible anyway)

We built the Shell Plugin Store into Fig[https://fig.io] to solve a lot of the problems mentioned in this thread. Namely: * Plugins are hard to install/uninstall * Plugins are hard to customise once installed * Plugins add bloat and/or degrade performance in shell load time * It's hard to find plugins in the first place (there is not centralised directory) * It's hard to sync plugins and configurations across devices

In Fig, adding a plugin is easy as clicking a button. And if you have issues with it, you can uninstall in a click too

Founder of Fig here. For context, Fig integrates with your existing terminal and shell.

A few things we've found: 1. Developers are understandably opinionated about their terminal/shell setup. It's a matter of personal productivity. 2. We have noticed a general trend of more terminal use happening in IDE, not a standalone terminal. 3. Most terminal "collaboration" happens asynchronously not synchronously (e.g. shared scripts, CLIs, secrets etc as opposed to live terminal sharing) 4. Most of the collaboration happens at the shell level not the terminal level

Given the above, we made the conscious conscious decision not to build our own terminal.

Happy to elaborate more

Interested!

This Google Trend graph shows an increase popularity. The increase has been fairly linear since 2014 but there were notable spikes in late 2021 and early 2022

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...