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The Terminal for the 21st Century

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Re: The Terminal for the 21st Century

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post #4

I use Warp daily as a fang dev, they have constantly improved the product. I'm a believer.

What does being a "fang dev" have to do with the quality of this terminal?

fang devs like to think that they are somehow superior to the rest of us. So they think mentioning that they work for a fang company gives their statements greater importance.

Re: The Terminal for the 21st Century

#12
post #9
post #6

Warp requires a sign-up before I can try the terminal. This can be a big no no for many users, or at least for me.

Why? You can now disable all their telemetry, so a login is kinda just meh.

Friction? Creating an account itself is quite a chore.

Re: The Terminal for the 21st Century

#14
A terminal app for the 21st century is:

1. FOSS.

2. Portable, multi-platform.

This "warp" is neither.

Also... replying to some of their homepage quips:

> Our GPT-3 powered AI search will convert natural language into executable shell commands.

I'll grant you that _is_ kind of futuristic, but I would really rather not install your keylogger on my system.

> Along the way, we built our own UI framework, our own Rust-based CRDT editor and our own graphics shaders.

Did you now? Well, that sounds problematic. I expect the use of well-vetted common (if not standard) libraries. Also, why does a terminal app need graphics shaders?

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Edit: Oh, it looks like I was even more suspicious last time this was announced here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30925105

Re: The Terminal for the 21st Century

#18
Definitely interested in this.

I'm a daily kitty user. I tried WezTerm but it was way too slow to load NeoVim for me over ssh.

Would need to play with it for some time - main things I can't live without at the moment are `ssh` + multiplexing across a remote session, and speed. It looks like Warp also doesn't support fish _well_ (most comments say it supports bash/zsh well). I am not necessarily attached to fish, but it is nicer IMHO.

Although, it looks like you have to login???? which is an immediate deal-breaker.

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