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Congrats on the launch!


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.


Where can I read more about the space of FOSS, not-mining-your-data-for-profit, don't-call-home, code completion solutions?


Thanks Matt, best of luck to the team!


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!


I'm pretty sure this is just a wrapper for Fig.


A wrapper for Fig that doesn’t require me to create an account in order to use my terminal. I’d say it’s a good thing.


also because you cannot even create an account on Fig nowadays since the signups are currently disabled



Fig autocomplete is really cool! With the Fig aquisition, what do you forsee happening to Fig's autocomplete offering in the long and short term? My impression is that Amazon was interested more in the other parts of your tech, with the scripts and automation capabilities.



Looking at the main author's gorhub profile, they forker Fig's repo.


Btw if you don't mind me asking, how will Fig make money? Will it be integrations with stuff like AWS, GCP, etc.? Nice work on Fig!


IIRC They were acquired by Amazon. They have a paid offering for shared team environments.


Oh cool, thanks!


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.


You might find Fig completion specs useful for this: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete


Completions have in general been of interest, though the shell-specific completions I've looked at so far were all too dynamic.

I'd forgotten all about Fig since I saw your launch post here last year, so thanks for reminder. (I don't think I had quite started to work on parsing specific external commands, yet, so it wouldn't have clicked at the time. Was still focused on just identifying the likely presence of exec in the executables.)

Are you familiar with the parse code? Are you handling painful stuff like combined short flags with a trailing option? (If I ferreted out some of the more painful cases I've had to wrangle, I am curious if you'd have a gut sense of whether your approach handles it. Would you mind if I reach out? I am working on this for https://github.com/abathur/resholve)


This is incorrect. If you opt-out, no telemetry events are sent at all.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819

> Telemetry: Fig has basic telemetry in order to help us make product decisions. We currently give the you option to opt out of all non-essential telemetry by running `fig settings app.disableTelemetry true`. This removes everything except for one daily ping. We use this ping to help us understand how many people were using Fig.


Have you checked this, i.e. checked your network traffic for 24 hours after installing and registering Fig?


mschrage (the author of the comment you're responding to) seems to have a personal affiliation with the project.

If you assume he's contributing here in good faith (my assumption) then I'd say it's safe to say that it does in fact disable telemetry.


We are making really good progress on this and will have a cross-platform prototype in the next month or so. See the Github issues for Linux[1] and Windows[2]

[1] https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/34

[2] https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/35


You have to open a terminal, like iTerm, and then autocomplete will appear :)


Congrats on the launch, Kam! Linen is awesome. We'd love to get this setup for Fig's Discord community :)


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