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Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

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Post by Aeolun »

bspammer wrote: post #142
johnnypangs wrote: post #16

Anyone know how this lines up to other terminals performance wise. I’ve been pretty happy with alacritty, but would be willing to try a terminal with more features. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

What do performance problems in a terminal even look like? I feel like a crazy person in this thread because I’ve literally never had the thought: “I could be so much more productive but this damn terminal is slowing me down”.

Hmm, I’ve definitely had commands run in the terminal that were speed limited by how fast the terminal could output the results.

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

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Post by booi »

qeternity wrote: post #103
michlim wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it might seem like a crazy amount. Building a terminal is hard. We have to build feature parity, maintain a stable terminal-shell interface, on top of modernizing the product experience. The money allows us to hire engineers to work on this project full-time and create a great product experience.

I don’t doubt any of that. The amount seems crazy not because of the potential costs, or ability to invest in the product, but rather due to TAM. But nobody would lead a round of that size without a decent monetization strategy. I suspect enterprise focus around security / IAM integrations (hence all the telemetry).

I think putting real enterprise focus on the terminal is a good thing but I'm not sure that's the right place for IAM or other security integrations. The terminal is just the GUI rendering on top of the actual tool (bash/zsh etc.) The security probably needs to be at the door (ssh/https etc).

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

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Post by banana_maker »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #170
gerbilly wrote: post #133

It looks nice but I'd never use a shell that phone's home. Period. I mean the CLI has been one of the last parts of my system that I really still trust is working on my behalf only. This product made me rethink that assumption. As for capturing the output from a command line on the mac (and also on linux IIRC) just use pbcopy/pbpaste. My opinion: It's not worth giving your privacy away for features like this.

Do you use Windows? Have you ever opened its terminal? Congrats, you're using a terminal that you agreed can phone home with telemtry. See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk... and the link to the privacy policy for windows terminal http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=521839 I suspect OSX is no different and has similar telemetry and privacy policy for its terminal.

Exactly, that's why people tend not to choose Windows for development unless they're forced to.

edit: use -> choose

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

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Post by apeace »

Just gave it a spin. Pretty cool, but I upvoted this issue: https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/755

Not going to be usable for me unless that's fixed, or at least made into a setting. Certain directory structures are built deep into my muscle-memory now, and I feel crippled when the auto-complete does something different than what I'm used to.

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

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Post by chimen »

The terminal is where I input my ssh passwords, my sudo passwords, crypto stuff, ssh keys and much more sensitive data. The fact that you even considered collecting stuff from me while using it is insane. I don't trust your promise to never "sell my data" and I don't trust that the next one which will buy your company when you decide to "exit" will do the same (I will when it's fully open source but that's not the case is it?). We shouldn't be talking about telemetry and data collected on a terminal to begin with.

Good luck with your product but HN does take privacy somewhat serious, I know I do.

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

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Post by gerbilly »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #170
gerbilly wrote: post #133

It looks nice but I'd never use a shell that phone's home. Period. I mean the CLI has been one of the last parts of my system that I really still trust is working on my behalf only. This product made me rethink that assumption. As for capturing the output from a command line on the mac (and also on linux IIRC) just use pbcopy/pbpaste. My opinion: It's not worth giving your privacy away for features like this.

Do you use Windows? Have you ever opened its terminal? Congrats, you're using a terminal that you agreed can phone home with telemtry. See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk... and the link to the privacy policy for windows terminal http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=521839 I suspect OSX is no different and has similar telemetry and privacy policy for its terminal.

Nope. I have never used Windows on any of my personal machines, not ever. I am waiting this MS Windows thing out, you could say.

At work I have used it in some cases when not given the choice.

If some company I am working for is fine with the Windows CLIs telemetry, then I suppose it is up to them, although I'd argue against it.

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