You are clearly not the ideal customer profile.. my guess is that the Fig team are going after corporate developers who won’t be as concerned about privacy so much as they are concerned about convenience and productivity.
What does this even mean? Pushing a Mac-exclusive app is hard enough, now you're further delineating between different "customer profiles"? It's an open-source app, it's "customer profile" is everyone with the means to install it, and their developers are the same people who use it on a daily basis.
Even still, your purported "corporate developers" would probably be more interested in privacy than your typical client, considering that corporations literally pay tens of thousands of dollars for proprietary tools like this, just so they have someone to hold liable if it breaks.
In either case, privacy is not a choice when you're working this low on the stack. You need to be operating with the lowest possible performance and telemetry options, or else you start to compromise the value proposition of your product. I wouldn't be surprised if this comment section acts as a good wake-up call to the core development team to switch their priorities, because developers don't agree with their current paradigm.
As someone with the misfortune to work in a large enterprise, this doesn't make sense - corporate are very sensitive to data leaving their network. As just one example, the place where I work very rarely let's us use anything cloud-hosted (Slack is just one example). And when the do, it's a years long process to get it.
I haven't looked into how this works, but if it's sending keystrokes or command lines to the cloud (one of the founders is here, please do correct me if I'm wrong!), it has no chance of being used in your average corporate environment.
^this. At least at FAANG , you will get flagged by opsec using a tool like this. Also, I don't think engineers here need something like this to be productive, nor having the same email domain means they use the same tools, but maybe is just me, as other people said, there are other tools that provide autocompletion, offline and free(as in speech). But maybe if you get PG to say this product will be the future of development, people will buy into it. I truly wish the founders the best of luck.
I want to add something a bit more positive - if you come with an on-prem version, it will have much more of a chance to sell within the enterprise. Of course, that's a lot more hassle to support etc.
Exactly. Having data leave our network (major corp environment) is a huge issue. Even when we are working with vendors, data comes in, but rarely, and only with many levels of authorization does it ever leave.
Any tool that is sending any information to the cloud is DOA for our org.
I actually care very little about the privacy issues, and am often very willing to trade privacy for convenience. I just don't want to be bothered to have to essentially register to use the app, for no real benefit to me.
