Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal • Hacker News Board

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

#81

Post by sebow » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:45 PM UTC

Damn, i knew it was a mac-first product but i really hoped for a linux release. Guess it does makes sense to attack the market with more money, but still.

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

#82

Post by michlim » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

bentobean wrote: post #76

Oh boy, a terminal that I have to pay a monthly fee to use. Can’t wait.

Warp engineer here. Warp is actually free for individuals.

Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features. Even those will likely be free up to some level of usage and only charged in a company context.

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

#83

Post by chewbacha » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

It's unfortunate that the name conflicts with an HTTP library in rust already: https://crates.io/crates/warp

Otherwise, it looks neat.

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

#84

Post by rbanffy » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

What bothers me is that it blends the lines between shell and terminal. A lot of the functionality could be exposed in a more terminal-neutral way.

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

#85

Post by qbasic_forever » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

I love the idea of mixing terminal and documentation, kind of like a terminal notebook. I wish there was an open source project that was basically just a shell/bash jupyter notebook and nothing more. So many little scripts, makefiles, project setups, etc. would be way easier to understand and maintain if they were mostly markdown documentation with some big "Run this" buttons next to the code blocks.

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

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Post by mfashby » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

The name collides with a web framework (also in Rust)

https://lib.rs/crates/warp

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

#87

Post by qeternity » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

qbasic_forever wrote: post #65

qeternity wrote: post #49

So what sort of valuation does a terminal raise $23m at

Presumably investors want at least 10x their investment, so...

That’s return on investment, not valuation.

Let’s say for giggles it was $23 at $46 post, even by today’s bubble standards, that seems…rich.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

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?

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

#89

Post by michlim » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

qeternity wrote: post #42

They’ve raised $23m?!? Uhhh

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.

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

#90

Post by Keyframe » Tue, Apr 05, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

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

Kitty is awesome, but no windows if you're into that. Alacritty awesome as well, but minimalistic and rust which I have no idea why it matters in OPs post or in general.