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We are seeing if people are using Warp regularly. We don’t know about any shells outside of Warp so technically, they could also using other terminals - but that’s enough info for …

Hi - Warp engineer here. Totally understand your skepticism and hesitation. Regarding open source, we want to do it for parts and potentially all of the code. We plan to open-sourc…

Right now, login is required while we're in Open Beta. When we GA, login will be opt-in (although you'd lose some of our cooler features).

Assuming you're on a shell that supports bracketed paste, it'll treat it as one block and execute all of the commands one after the other. The exit status will be that of the last …

Warp engineer here - thanks for writing about your experience! As cieplik mentioned, it's true that telemetry has not been mentioned as frequently as it has been on HN. > I think i…

Warp engineer here! The shell has arbitrary access to the environment, and there's a long tail of shell config to play nice with. For example, here's a fun technical read about how…

Thanks for writing your thoughts! I can understand the skepticism and ultimately this is not far from the business we want to build. The terminal is totally free for individuals an…

Thanks for your positive feedback, Divan!

cieplik did a great job implementing support for VoiceOver and having a few blind engineers beta test the app

This is for cloud-enabled features not presently in other terminals. Right now, we have two relevant features: 1. The ability to share a "block" of input/output to a permalink that…

Warp engineer here - Thanks for your response! It's too early right now, but we are definitely going to open source parts and potentially all of the code.

Thanks for your response. Let us know how it goes with the app!

While this can be done in zsh/bash, it takes investment to understand how to use multiline specifically. And then once you leave the terminal, the same keystroke does not do anythi…

The terminal is a surprisingly performance intensive application. When we built an initial prototype in electron, it was struggling to render full screens of text output on large s…

Warp engineer here - Thanks for being an early user! While folks have mentioned here that shells have powerful line editing capabilities, I've found that a lot of people miss this.…

First of all, we love Alacritty: our terminal model code is based on Alacritty’s model code. We’re grateful that a few of the collaborators reviewed our early design docs. We think…

Hi - Warp engineer here! Fully understand your disappointment and hesitation. The terminal is totally free for individuals. The general philosophy is that we would never charge for…

Warp engineer here. Thanks for your note, glad to hear from a fellow engineer in this space! While there's a lot of great software that's free, the terminal is a tool tens of milli…

Appreciate you writing in! > I would easily pay $20-50 for a souped-up terminal (I spend all day in it), even a closed-source one, but the "we raised tons of money to build a free …

Totally understand if you don't feel comfortable using it! The reason we don't submit this only during a crash, is because there are a lot of other things we want to know about use…

In addition to crashes, we also want to know things like: which features people are using so we can invest more in them, how much people are using the app so we know if we're doing…

We started with Electron/Typescript and pivoted to Rust when it was clear that the performance was unfeasible for certain workloads (e.g. scrolling on 4k monitors). If we already h…

Hi, Warp engineer here! Nothing against electron. We write this in the headline because people who see features like blocks or input editor automatically think "slow". So it's a su…

> terminal that requires an e-mail login Email is required only for the closed beta. Warp will be offline-first. All details here: https://www.warp.dev/privacy .

Our strategy here is to share sessions to the web, so collaborators don't need to download the app. It's fascinating how far utilities like screen will get you in functionality, bu…