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Re: Warp is now open-source

#91

Post by Bayart »

Glad to see such a move from the Wrap team. It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years due to :

- Being able to drop in a brand new laptop and have almost all I need out of warp and a barebones ZSH configuration. I used to spend a lot of time on getting ZSH both fast and feature-rich, and it's brittle. Warp by default provides good auto-complete etc.

- Fast rendering and sane graphical defaults. I don't need to do much more than put my font of choice.

- QoL features regarding file rendering etc.

I've never used the agentic parts of it, when I needed CLI my company paid for Claude and I get most of my stuff done with what I get out of my Zed subscription. But I'd be more inclined to do so now.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#92

Post by hbn »

Squarex wrote: 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.

I originally got into Warp because they made a terminal where my normal text input keyboard shortcuts work.

As they've been scrambling to find a way to monetize and riding the AI train, it feels more bloated than ever and the constant pushing for me to use "agents" and whatnot really put my off using it. Plus with all the privacy concerns I can't with good conscience use it on my work machine.

So yes, I'd like a non-tracking, no-AI version of Warp too.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#93

Post by voidUpdate »

fortyseven wrote: post #89
lproven wrote: post #86

opens link... ... it's not about OS/2 3 or 4, but some AI thing, and apparently feels no need to disambiguate or even acknowledge the prior usage of its name ... closes tab

To be fair it's been quite a while now since OS/2 was relevant. It never even occurred to me that it might be connected to that mainstream news story.

This is HN, seeing older tech stuff here wouldnt be surprising at all

Re: Warp is now open-source

#94

Post by hbn »

dewey wrote: post #72
dkter wrote: post #4

Sad that they didn't open source the commit history. I would have loved to branch off of like 5 years ago when Warp was just a terminal, rip out all the AI and cloud shit, and turn it into just a nice terminal with some neat features.

Their terminal is just Alacritty, why would you do all these extra steps instead of just using Alacritty, or Ghostty? The terminal emulator was never their selling point, the AI wrapper was. https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049159764261925005

> The terminal emulator was never their selling point, the AI wrapper was.

Considering it came out in 2020 - a few years before the LLM hype train left the station, and when I started using it there was no AI integration, this doesn't seem accurate.

I liked using it because of the text input.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#96

Post by egorfine »

mzajc wrote: post #87
egorfine wrote: post #77

Can you confirm that Warp is NOT initiating any connection to any service whatsoever unless explicitly enabled in Settings? Warp had an account requirement in the beginning which spoke volumes about the misalignment of values. Now the terminal is not called a terminal, it is "the agentic development environment" (whatever that means) which also lowkey implies that it might have some kind of online features. But at th…

> Does it call home? Absolutely, in heaps. The very moment you start Warp, it sends 5 HTTP requests, (1 version check, 1 LLM model list, 3 telemetry events). The former two go to app.warp.dev, the latter 3 go to warpianwzlfqdq.dataplane.rudderstack.com and include a persistent UUID, your operating system and version, Warp version, and the tracked event name and its properties. All of this happens before you even see…

This is incredible, really. I am impressed. Thank you for the explanation.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#97

Post by hbn »

james1221 wrote: post #71
zachlloyd wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Hey Zach - one thing I'm really missing is the ability for this to be toggled on/off per device - whilst I love it on my personal devices and want to use AI there, I also want to be able to use and log into warp at work without having to toggle it off, as I can't use AI there.

From other comments in the thread, login is no longer required so you should be able to just not login on your work machine

https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp

Re: Warp is now open-source

#98

Post by KingMob »

dewey wrote: post #72
dkter wrote: post #4

Sad that they didn't open source the commit history. I would have loved to branch off of like 5 years ago when Warp was just a terminal, rip out all the AI and cloud shit, and turn it into just a nice terminal with some neat features.

Their terminal is just Alacritty, why would you do all these extra steps instead of just using Alacritty, or Ghostty? The terminal emulator was never their selling point, the AI wrapper was. https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049159764261925005

This is just incorrect. Warp predates the AI craze, and one of its original selling points was reimagining how the terminal could work: it could be more native, and act like a REPL/chat, instead of a grid of characters.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#99

Post by KingMob »

keyle wrote: post #70
KingMob wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Warp is equally stable, almost as fast, while being more usable than Ghostty.

What makes you say that Ghostty is less usable than another?

Well, for starters, I get obscure errors if I get something wrong editing the Ghostty config file.

I think there's a reason people are very interested in libghostty. It's a fully-featured library to build off of, but Ghostty proper still lacks a lot of polish.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#100

Post by KingMob »

lproven wrote: post #86

opens link... ... it's not about OS/2 3 or 4, but some AI thing, and apparently feels no need to disambiguate or even acknowledge the prior usage of its name ... closes tab

Well, "warp" is a generic word, the projects are unrelated, OS/2 was never that popular, and it was last released 30 years ago.

I personally feel like there's no need for acknowledgement at this point, but that's just me.

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