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

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Post by OutsmartDan »

alokedesai wrote: post #30
orastor wrote: post #20

Wanted to give it a shot but got disappointed when I launched it and the following happened: - Outgoing request to googleapis.com - Outgoing request to segment.io - Outgoing request to sentry.io - Requires sign up (only via Github, mind you) I understand the first request is probably to get some dynamic configuration, even though I'd rather my terminal ship with static configuration. But then you have segment and sen…

I definitely understand the concerns. For our public beta, we do send telemetry and associate it with the logged in user because it makes it much easier to reach out and get feedback when something goes wrong. But we only track metadata, never console output. For an exhaustive list of events that we track, see here: https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy#exhaustive-tel... . Once we hit general availability, ou…

That's a ton of data being collected. I would rather much have this submitted during a crash, rather than opt-in/opt-out. I'd not want to use a terminal that has data collection that crosses the internet every time I use it.

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

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Post by daenney »

jacobsimon wrote: post #51
orastor wrote: post #20

Wanted to give it a shot but got disappointed when I launched it and the following happened: - Outgoing request to googleapis.com - Outgoing request to segment.io - Outgoing request to sentry.io - Requires sign up (only via Github, mind you) I understand the first request is probably to get some dynamic configuration, even though I'd rather my terminal ship with static configuration. But then you have segment and sen…

Come on. You must realize VS Code and basically every website you use collects telemetry data, which is rarely for anything nefarious except product improvements. If GitHub/Microsoft had released this product, would you be raising the same concerns?

We can set the bar higher than “other people do this too so it’s fine”.

> If GitHub/Microsoft had released this product, would you be raising the same concerns?

Yes. It’s one of the reasons I use the open source build instead.

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

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Post by alokedesai »

NoraCodes wrote: post #22

This is neat, but I'm not convinced it's going in the right direction. It's not open source, and "maybe it will eventually be" is unacceptable for such a core component of an engineer's workflow. Most of the features on the front page are "coming soon," not actually available. There's no timeline for support for non-Mac OS systems, and it's built using Metal rather than any cross-platform API, so it will be at least…

Great callouts, I definitely get your concern around block sharing--that feature does exist currently in Warp but it is completely opt in on a per command basis (we never collect any command output without the user opting into it first). The way this works is that if you explicitly click "Share" by right clicking on a block, we will send the contents to our server and generate a link for you. A block can also be unshared at any point to completely delete a block from our server.

Regarding the cross-platform piece, the plan is absolutely to support different platforms. In fact we've built our own cross-platform UI framework to help us with this endeavor which you can read about here: https://www.warp.dev/blog/how-warp-works. We chose Metal to start because the Metal debugging tools in Xcode are excellent, allowing us to inspect texture resources and easily measure important metrics like frame rate and GPU memory size. Thankfully, because our graphics code is decoupled from our UI framework, porting the graphics piece of the UI framework essentially mounts to porting over a few hundred lines of shader code, which shouldn't be too difficult.

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

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Post by cieplik »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #58

One feature that’s missing from a surprising number of Mac terminals is a hotkey-bound non-activating dropdown (think Quake console) or HUD window (imagine a floating, frameless terminal window in the vein of the Alfred or Spotlight window). The best implementation of this to date was in TotalTerminal/Visor, which was a mod for the Apple terminal that added this feature but naturally went the way of the dodo when mac…

Hey! Actually, Warp does have a "quake mode" - you should give it a try (Settings -> Features -> Hotkey Window)

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

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Post by michlim »

varbhat wrote: post #57

I use configured zsh which has majority of features mentioned above. It is integrated with fzf and also has autcompletions(with help description), autosuggestions,hints, file completions and more. You can see my zsh dotfiles below. https://github.com/varbhat/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/zsh I could even have enabled real time type ahead completions with this plugin but i haven't (because i don't need this feature) :…

Warp engineer here.

Here are some differentiated features:

- Blocks: we group commands and outputs together so it is easier to navigate through the terminal, and perform actions on the outputs [0]

- A text editor for the input: selections, cursor positioning, multiple cursors [1]

- Workflows which allows you to save and share hard-to-remember commands [2]

The projects you mentioned are great. They do involve some amount of configuration. We have those out of the box so they are more easily accessible to developers.

[0]https://docs.warp.dev/features/blocks

[1]https://docs.warp.dev/features/the-input-editor

[2]https://docs.warp.dev/features/workflows

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

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Post by msdrigg »

varbhat wrote: post #57

I use configured zsh which has majority of features mentioned above. It is integrated with fzf and also has autcompletions(with help description), autosuggestions,hints, file completions and more. You can see my zsh dotfiles below. https://github.com/varbhat/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/zsh I could even have enabled real time type ahead completions with this plugin but i haven't (because i don't need this feature) :…

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