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I'm very happy to see it's a Swift/native app! One request, I would love to see an API (JS or a native bundle or anything) so that I can write native UIs, not j

I'm very happy to see it's a Swift/native app! One request, I would love to see an API (JS or a native bundle or anything) so that I can write native UIs, not just ones in WKWebViews as I personally think having native UIs are important. Also, (I've already written this on the TypeForm, but) I would like if Fig spits out information that can be useful to stdout/stderr. For example, user interaction can go to stderr and the result (I guess user commands?) can go to stdout. I understand this might be a bit hard as I guess Fig is working asynchronously - but maybe changing so that people can build on Fig with shell scripts might be better. Thanks!

mschrage 6y ago
Yeah, these are both great ideas. I was inspired to use web technologies for building the UI by this discussion (https://lobste.rs/s/vrb7qh/web_as_gui_toolkit https://lobste.rs/s/vrb7qh/web_as_gui_toolkit). Ultimately, I want to port Fig to Linux and Windows, so having a UI layer that works cross platform is useful. But it would be very cool to enable access to native UI directly. (I'd love to chat with you about how this could work.) Outputing to stdout and stderr doesn't happen right now, but is on the very near term roadmap. The ultimate goal is for web apps to slot in seamlessly to shell workflows, so getting this right is really important. Thanks for your comments!