I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Yeah, it provides autocomplete, but it looks like it does some sort of graphical shenanigans, yet says it's not a terminal emulator, but works with pretty much any terminal emulator. My guess is that it does something like the way you can show jpegs in terminals that support it, but who knows? Watching a gif of it in action could be showing native Cocoa stuff for all I can tell. Maybe there's a different spin of it for each OS?
There's no installer, and a lot of things that are links on the site don't go anywhere.
It's a lightweight webview on top of your terminal from what I've understood. It's using TypeScript and I believe they've been working on a moving parts to Rust.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
And ah... it's MacOS-specific at the moment, which is why nobody can download it. I'm actually really curious about this and how it'll be different from existing auto-complete shell functionality besides looking more graphical.
After spending 2 minutes looking at the fig web page, I have no idea how to install it or even what it really does.
I had the opposite experience. It’s seemed pretty clear to me that it provided autocomplete for the terminal based on the first image.
I’m sure @brendan from Fig would appreciate this feedback as they aim to make things as straightforward as possible.
Yeah, it provides autocomplete, but it looks like it does some sort of graphical shenanigans, yet says it's not a terminal emulator, but works with pretty much any terminal emulator. My guess is that it does something like the way you can show jpegs in terminals that support it, but who knows? Watching a gif of it in action could be showing native Cocoa stuff for all I can tell. Maybe there's a different spin of it for each OS?
There's no installer, and a lot of things that are links on the site don't go anywhere.
It's a lightweight webview on top of your terminal from what I've understood. It's using TypeScript and I believe they've been working on a moving parts to Rust.
@blackgirlbytes did a Twitter Spaces with @brendan this past week if you want to give a listen to the recording.
OK, I've listened to that. I'd never heard of Twitter "spaces" either, so TIL :)
And ah... it's MacOS-specific at the moment, which is why nobody can download it. I'm actually really curious about this and how it'll be different from existing auto-complete shell functionality besides looking more graphical.
Ahh, thanks for mentioning that. For some reason I thought it wasn’t macOS specific. I’ll update the post.
Yes, macOS specific. Confusion likely came from the fact that on macOS we show a download button, on Linux/Windows we show a waitlist sign up form!
Good catch, we should make this more clear.
And thank you for recommending Fig, @nickytonline !