<story><title>Amazon acquires Fig</title><url>https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-joins-aws</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masto</author><text>These features are nice, but I&amp;#x27;ve never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them.&lt;p&gt;I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it&amp;#x27;s not that I&amp;#x27;m not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I&amp;#x27;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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hot_gril</author><text>Sticking to Vim and other very well-established CLIs is partially what enabled flexibility for me. As long as I have access to a *nix machine locally or over SSH, I have a capable dev setup that I&amp;#x27;m well-versed in. Same thing for the past 8 jobs I&amp;#x27;ve bounced around in, whether in-office or remote, with whatever security restrictions, with or without a desk, maybe with just a 13&amp;quot; laptop. It&amp;#x27;s the lowest common denominator. Meanwhile my teammates at my current job are constantly trying to protect their workstation setups so they can use their IDEs locally, and they&amp;#x27;ve also been forced to switch IDEs twice in the past couple of years.&lt;p&gt;And this isn&amp;#x27;t coming from some FOSS ideology. I don&amp;#x27;t personally care about any of that, but the best tools are sometimes FOSS. I&amp;#x27;ve got a Mac and can deal with Linux as needed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon acquires Fig</title><url>https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-joins-aws</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masto</author><text>These features are nice, but I&amp;#x27;ve never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them.&lt;p&gt;I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it&amp;#x27;s not that I&amp;#x27;m not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I&amp;#x27;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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>veg</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s no need for a new terminal. Their homepage literally says &amp;quot;IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal&amp;quot;.</text></comment>