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I think you could build a really good terminal if you had $23M to piss away. I strongly doubt you can create a good terminal if it also needs a business model that can recoup $23M.
I don't doubt you could have a single, family supporting business supporting a piece of software. Like, I am rabid to pay $20 for a license to any software I can run by a small guy.
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#712That sounds a bit ageist :) also - can command editing integrate with my editor of choice? I don’t want to have to learn how to use another editor - I already know my way around bash keyboard shortcuts, having to learn a third thing sounds like a step backwards.
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#713This 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…
Edit: After searching for variations of “terminal” “iterm” and “tuple”, of course it’s the top hit if you just search Mac and tuple! https://tuple.app/
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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 succinct way to communicate that we have a snappy app. For benchmarks, we have some preliminary info in this tech blog https://www.warp.dev/blog/how-warp-works .
I understand that you want to promote the speed. I think the message could be more succinct without mentioning Electron and web.
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#715How to make me completely lose interest in a piece of software: Announce it as being Rust based as if that’s an important feature I should care about. At least it isn’t a blockchain terminal I guess
Although I agree with your blockchain view.
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Or Kitty, which does more or less the same things but includes split and tabs and other convenience features.
Kitty is cool, I use it on debian, but it is not cross-platform. So I hesitate to compare it to alacritty.
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#718More NGS perspective on the UI - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
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I understand that you want to promote the speed. I think the message could be more succinct without mentioning Electron and web.
Why? I hate Electron with passion, and being "no-Electron" was an insta-buy for me.