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Warp is now open-source

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Re: Warp is now open-source

#21
post #6

I really like Warp. It's a lot nicer to be able to visualize what I'm doing in the terminal. Some people don't like the AI features, but they only activate if you log in.

Which when I last used it they forced you to do. I'm assuming this has changed in the several years since?

Re: Warp is now open-source

#22
post #3

Well, very nice, will need to give it a try afer I check the requirements. I almost went to Warp from DOS but Linux arrived first. EDIT: well looks like this is not OS/2 Warp. I wish the title would have noted this is somekind of app instead of just saying "warp".

It's ok to recycle names once every thirty years :) Warp hasn't had a release in decades.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#23
post #16

I hope someone will create a lightweight version without AI and code editing stuff. The terminal experience is the best, but I don't have any use for the agentic stuff while having claude code, opencode, codex and plenty other options.

It's good feedback. We've tried to make it so there is a single "turn off all the AI stuff" button (and you can opt into plain old terminal during onboarding as well, with no login, etc). Curious if this does the trick?

Re: Warp is now open-source

#24
post #16

I hope someone will create a lightweight version without AI and code editing stuff. The terminal experience is the best, but I don't have any use for the agentic stuff while having claude code, opencode, codex and plenty other options.

It's good feedback. We've tried to make it so there is a single "turn off all the AI stuff" button (and you can opt into plain old terminal during onboarding as well, with no login, etc). Curious if this does the trick?

~And where is it? I am a long time signed in user, so no onboarding for me.~ How would you make money from users like me?

edit: nevermind, it was quite discoverable...

Re: Warp is now open-source

#25
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price? Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already. I feel like their funding is drying up and this is their last ditch effort to have the "community" build their product for them. They claim agents will run the show, with inputs from community in the form o…

They see their competitors as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, not ghostty or something.

correct - our business is our agent and orchestrator, not our terminal.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#26
post #7

My main driver has been Ghostty but I've been looking at Warp for a while. Warp seems like a full on IDE (~ADE) though, as opposed to a minimalistic terminal. Can anyone add some thoughts? Are these 2 very different? tangential: I've seen Mitchel tweet that people in SF have ran up to him showing him how they fully riced their Ghostty setup. How many people here have done this and how easy/manageable is it? e.g. just…

Warp founder here. We actually are chatting with Mitchell about integrating Ghostty so it's the terminal grid renderer within Warp.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#27
post #21
post #6

I really like Warp. It's a lot nicer to be able to visualize what I'm doing in the terminal. Some people don't like the AI features, but they only activate if you log in.

Which when I last used it they forced you to do. I'm assuming this has changed in the several years since?

Correct, we got rid of this requirement a couple of years ago. No login required at all, except for using AI and team features.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#30
post #22
post #3

Well, very nice, will need to give it a try afer I check the requirements. I almost went to Warp from DOS but Linux arrived first. EDIT: well looks like this is not OS/2 Warp. I wish the title would have noted this is somekind of app instead of just saying "warp".

It's ok to recycle names once every thirty years :) Warp hasn't had a release in decades.

Well, it hasn't under the OS/2 name, but as the licensed successor ArcOS, its last release was literally this year. (Of course, that's also why OS/2 is pretty unlikely to be open-sourced any time soon: it's actually still being developed and sold!)
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