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mschrage on Monday April 27, 2026 @03:33PM
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mschrage on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:59PM
from the cognition.ai dept.
Love this and am tremendously impressed by this team's persistence. Congrats on the launch!
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.
Posted by
mschrage on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:19PM
from the github.com dept.
Co-founder of Fig here! Just want to say that I think this is awesome.
It’s really cool to see alternative implementations of IDE-style autocomplete in the terminal. Nice work!
Posted by
mschrage on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:10PM
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The initial version of the Cicada framework was built internally at Fig (fig.io) but we liked using it so much that we wanted to open it up to the community.
We were so sick of fighting with proprietary YAML. TS is a breath of fresh air.
Posted by
mschrage on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:03PM
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mschrage on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @03:48PM
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Posted by
mschrage on Sunday May 01, 2022 @04:33AM
from the paulgraham.com dept.
This is incorrect. If you opt-out, no telemetry events are sent at all.
You have to open a terminal, like iTerm, and then autocomplete will appear :)
Posted by
mschrage on Thursday April 28, 2022 @06:23PM
from the fig.io dept.
Congrats on the launch, Kam! Linen is awesome. We'd love to get this setup for Fig's Discord community :)
There is certainly some room for improvement! :)
Currently, lots of developers use GitHub (which naturally requires a login) to sync their dotfiles across devices.
We are building our own version of this, that is more tailored to the use case than a generic git repo interface. :)
Don't forget the icons ;)
Tens of thousands of developers use Fig everyday and seem to really enjoy the autocomplete affordances that we've added.
That said, if you already are very comfortable in the terminal, some of the pain points that we're tackling might be less acute for you.
It seems like Fig might not be solving a problem you have and that's totally okay.
We believe that there is a lot of room to improve developer experience in the terminal. That's why we build the products that we build.
One of our core principles is backwards compatibility. We want Fig to be a seamless addition to your existing tools and workflows!
It's taken some creativity on the engineering side, but has been super fun to see what we've been able to build when working with these constraints.
Our mission is to improve the developer experience in the terminal.
We think that layer on new interfaces can help make the commandline even more powerful... as well as making it more accessible. Check out kui[0] to get an idea of what we're imagining.
[0] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kui
`zsh-autocomplete` is a great tool as well! Some of this is just a matter of personal preference.
I've answered a few of your concerns in a different comment[0].
tl;dr
Autocomplete is just our first product, and it's part of a suite of tools focused on improving developer experience in the terminal. The idea is that you can configure your developer environment in Fig and then we'll sync it across all of your devices.
Fig will always be free for individuals. Teams pay for Fig for collaboration and discovery of internal scripts and for managing dev environment setup and onboarding.
A Linux/Windows version is coming soon. [1] [2]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31113668.
[1] https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/34
[2] https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/35
Update your iTerm shell integration and the issue should be resolved!
Please run `fig issue` and I'll investigate.
I mentioned this in another comment [0].
> Autocomplete is just our first product, and it's part of a suite of tools focused on improving developer experience in the terminal. The idea is that you can configure your developer environment in Fig and then we'll sync it across all of your devices.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31113668