These features are nice, but I've never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them.
I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it's not that I'm not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I've moved away from Emacs to VS Code, and work from more heterogeneous environments instead of being 100% Mac. So these platform-specific thick client apps no longer feel like the way to go.
That was fast. Fig's HackerNews launch (May 25, 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819
Have seen Brendan talk a lot about it on Twitter.
Interesting - I tried Fig for few days few months ago, it gave me more headaches than relief so uninstalled it. Surprised that it made into a viable product and shocked it actually got acquired.
Congratulations! I've been using it for about a year or so. Hopefully their product will continue to exist... that's what their blog says now, but that's pretty much what everyone says at first.
I love this product, have contributed several times to it, and I'm a little torn. One thing I am thinking about now, is that the completion specs are MIT-licensed, and it should be possible to use them to re-implement a basic open-source version of the autocompletion product... https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
Congratulations!? I do hope that means AWS’s ever growing cli commands will be all fig now (or will be)? It’s getting a bit long in the tooth. What about support outside of AWS? Will fig still be as awesome in iTerm2 with what-ever-is-in-%PATH%?
Plugging a project of mine: I've been working on a similar idea for the era of LLMs: https://butterfi.sh.
It's much more bare-bones than Fig but perhaps useful if you're looking for an alternative! Send me feedback!
First time hearing of fig, other than when the name was used for a precursor to Docker Compose.
Is this effectively very similar to Atuin?
i never thought fig or warp would ever work. requiring an account and a subscription to use CLI tools sounds ludicrous. but they seem to have found a silver bullet with AWS since having an account is a requirement anyway.
good luck to them on what comes next.
As a regular terminal user, I didn't find Fig particularly useful to begin with, but this just made me remove it entirely
Seems like tough competition in this space. Warp has what's essentially Github Copilot in the CLI, and it's the same price.
Beyond that, actual GH Copilot does a damn good job of crafting any CLI command that you can describe.
Will be interesting to see what happens to this long term, but hopefully means good things. I use the tool personally but really for largely basic things.
The dropdown for autocomplete is far from necessary but a nice addition. Helping with completing commands that I don't use often but know the basics of like "aws s3 cp" is nice. But because of that I could just never justify spending money on it.
Hopefully it isn't abandoned, but maybe this will also mean they don't have to try to find artificial reasons (or bloat) to convince people to pay and can just focus on the core offering.
I had completely forgot about Fig, I remember trying it out on my previous laptop, it didn't offer anything more than my zsh-autocomplete, which made me send in my feedback before uninstalling.
The telemetry part didn't bug me that much, but the product itself was cool, reminds me of warp.dev
Congratz on the acquisition.
Tangentially related:
One of the most annoying thing is to learn about an interesting project by the post were they announce that they are aquihired, or even worse, closing down because of lack of interest.
Congrats! Big fan of Fig and excited to see the UX brought to aws CLIs
This is very damaging for other startups. You create something, then you ask people to believe you and invest their time and sometimes money with you.
Then you, in act of desperation, sell out and sell your users...
The issue is, people are already super skeptical when these startups start asking for things, this just makes them even harder to get users to trust you as a emerging company or product with data and usage.
I liked fig, but I got rid of it when I saw that email.
Congrats to the team on the sale! Sadly, seems like it’s dead now. Happy they got paid :)
I checked Fig when it was announced but preferred Warp for some reason. I think it looked nicer and was snappier.
I could never love it, but hopefully that's a nice exit for everyone involved. Congrats.
Pretty cool for the Fig team.
Check out Gorilla-CLI. An open source alternative to Fig, that’s also LLM powered!
Tried to check it out, but I got "Signups are currently disabled" :(
I feel sorry for their remote employees as their company just sold them out.
I installed Fig just now and got "Something went wrong. Signups are currently disabled." when I tried to use it.
Their servers have been overwhelmed by Hacker News traffic presumably.
Seems like an acquihire!
I’ve been using Fig since the beta days and I love it. I’m sure there will be some changes but at least they didn’t sell to Google. Congrats to Brendan and the team.
Fig is awesome. Congrats to the team!
So AWS's dev ex will get better?
Is there anything similar for Linux?
How does that align with Amazon's product line? Is Fig an online product?
Seems like I dodged a bullet. When I interviewed there the founder asked very generic questions that may as well have come straight out of an Amazon leadership principles pamphlet. I bet Amazon will be a good fit for them. I feel bad for the employees who likely wanted to work for a startup, not Amazon. I’d be surprised if they got much from the acquihire either.
Ehh, time to uninstall. Too bad, it worked great for me.
I'll stick with Zsh completions
How popular is fig compared to warp?
"I am thrilled to announce that the Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology! "
That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way
In any event, I'll pass on "the CLI with a subscription that sends telemetry".
Paying hard earned dollars every month for a terminal is something so out of the realm of the possible for me I'm honestly baffled to see this has any customers...
> There aren't any updates to share at this time on future plans,
Wait for the “Our amazing journey” post where Amazon is just going to shut their product down
Wait, this is Autocomplete for $12/month?
I can't help but not want to use a CLI I have to log into.
Another so called 'incredible journey' which the VCs (including YC) accelerated an exit.
Oh times have changed. In days past acquisitions of startups by big tech were met with congratulation and adulation. Today they are met with dread and despair.
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> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS.
This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product...
I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the current users I guess.