Launching Fig (opens in new tab)

Just so you now: using it will require an email.

Unfortunately, it will only tell you that after sending you through a ~3 minute setup process, asking for system permissions and installing a background helper.

Visual apps, shortcuts, autocomplete, and a JavaScript API for the terminal?

Hell no.

The terminal system was built as a no-frills, bloat-free, real-time interactive interface over a 1200 baud serial line.

I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole even if it was open source, and didn't have the creepy telemetry and mandatory email signup that others are rightly complaining about.

I wouldn't recommend this to a beginner either. The terminal is confusing enough. The last thing you want is a bunch of extra menus, icons, plugins, and JavaScript addons, together with a thing that types commands for you which interferes with learning and building muscle memory.

Making email collection mandatory seems ludicrous to me.

This is not an open source project.

I’m a concerned about telemetry. As someone pointed out, this is not open source; how am I supposed to tell IT this is safe to install?

Unfortunately in the wake of recent[0] news and overall history I don't feel comfortable at all about making something like this integral part of the terminal and thus giving it access to basically everything?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29245080

I'm training new developers and they often have to lean the terminal as well. Having some training wheels in there would be awesome. I can see a future where team development environments are highly customized and easy to spin up and onboard new people. Custom apps will be more friendly with this overlay UI.

Ok, I actually LIKE the idea of this. But some of the things mentioned each make it a non-starter for me.

Oops, out of beta too early? Well, probably not. Most people (and especially the target audience) don’t care about buying into something proprietary tainting something that was previously free. Offering an API instead of offering an own terminal will soothe most discontent.

Heck, I may even try if it turns out to work well. But you can probably tell how I feel about it.

Cheers to the Fig team! Fig has been a game changer for me, and contributing autocomplete backends has been fun and easy. Excited to see where they go

I'm excited to see some innovation on the terminal! This could be really helpful for some of my students using new tools like git for the first time.

Nice. But still only MacOS?

VSCode add-on sounds interesting.

Someone at Microsoft get on this acquihire and get it implemented into Windows Terminal/PowerShell or whatever