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> The idea is that you can configure your developer environment in Fig and then we'll sync it across all of your devices. What's Fig's target audience? Develop
by shric 5y ago
> The idea is that you can configure your developer environment in Fig and then we'll sync it across all of your devices.
What's Fig's target audience? Developers.
Developers have been using a tried and tested way to keep configurations for decades -- dotfiles. We sync them across all our devices using git (or any of a thousand other ways). This is a solved problem and doesn't require email addresses or logins.
- mschrage 5y agoCurrently, lots of developers use GitHub (which naturally requires a login) to sync their dotfiles across devices. We are building our own version of this, that is more tailored to the use case than a generic git repo interface. :)
- ushakov 5y agogit controls versions and is open-source you’re building a proprietary solution for something that isn’t a problem at all
- francoispon 5y agowhy don't you give this company a chance? I am sure there is room for innovation even if it's non oss it's fine along it's something new. I'd like to see what kind of innovation they can bring to dotfile management. I keep most of my important dotfile configuration in a private repo managed by stow/syncthing, but the management gets old after a while and the git commit -am "update" gets old after a while..
- hoffs 5y ago> Developers have been using a tried and tested way to keep configurations for decades -- dotfiles Which kinda sucks
- mschrage 5y agoThere is certainly some room for improvement! :)
- radicaldreamer 5y agosymlink dropbox used to be a solid way to do it, but that was before dropbox had to perform for the public markets every quarter