No, I don't want an IDE plugin that rewrites (read: messes up) my config files to "help" me install things. All I need is a website to generate API keys and a package URL to add to the dependencies file.
The IDE plugin must have taken quite a bit of effort as well - not sure why and how someone at Twitter considered it to be a good idea. Perhaps a misguided attempt at "capturing developer mindshare" or the arrogant assumption that Twitter/Fabric SDKs are important parts of people's apps?
Given Twitter's fickleness toward developers in the past I'm especially wary.
Getting your company ingrained into a larger part of the app market has huge benefits. Now if people aren't using the Twitter app, Twitter can track them and get data from them if they use an app that relies on Fabric.
The benefit is purely integrating themselves with larger and more diverse user bases.
In which case, I'd be kinda skeptical. If the other tools are mainly loss-leaders for advertising, then Twitter will be prone to limiting or canceling them when the internal politics change.
Which is exactly what they did with API access previously: they cost money to operate and weren't for the moment seen as directly beneficial, so what was previously going to be free forever was suddenly cut back.
Does anyone know what the minimum size is?
Fabric - A platform for secure distributed computation and storage https://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/papers/fabric-sosp09.pdf
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/fabric/
From the place that brought us practical, cutting-edge security like JIF, SIF, SWIFT, and CIVITAS. Link below gets you to most of that:
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jif/
Then there's this Fabric which probably has different security properties. ;)
