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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by zachlloyd »

nixpulvis wrote: post #78
zachlloyd wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Warp founder here. Totally understood on the feedback - one thing I would call out is that we actually worked with Alacritty on the initial implementation and they were super helpful and we are grateful for their support.

I feel obligated to chime in here a bit. I was the Alacritty member who was contacted and who offered some feedback. I have absolutely no hard feelings. Would it have been a good idea to charge them for my time, IDK. I was in between a research role and a new job at the time and more than happy to help. Do I feel like I missed out on something, maybe a little bit, but that's more on me than them. I'm sure if I had an…

thanks for the support here. we are very grateful for the help you all provided initially, and if you are interested in sponsorship for the repo, we are also happy to provide some. alacritty is awesome

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by zachlloyd »

petcat wrote: post #66
zachlloyd wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We hear this feedback a bunch and are trying to make Warp more customizable so you can pick and choose which of the extra, non-terminal features you find most useful . You can turn off all the AI if you want, and also control what editing features are surfaced (e.g. file tree, diff view, etc). Would love feedback on how to improve the experience.

> trying to make Warp more customizable so you can pick and choose which of the extra, non-terminal features I think this will contribute even more to the overwhelming feeling. I don't think people want endless configuration. They want something with an opinionated product direction. It seems like Warp lacks that resolve and is trying to be too much because nobody has decided what it is actually supposed to be.

that's fair. we try to be opinionated on the default experience but allow a lot of customizability.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by Muhammad523 »

zachlloyd wrote: post #33
hmokiguess wrote: post #22

I swear I tried. I installed warp maybe 4 times after long intervals. At each time I always ended up with the same feeling as my initial impression: overwhelming. I think I’m not the target demographic for it, I’m fine with iTerm2 and Ghostty, but I somehow still feel this void where I wish the terminal was a little more abstract and rich, just not to the level Warp takes it. I wish there were an in-between solution…

We hear this feedback a bunch and are trying to make Warp more customizable so you can pick and choose which of the extra, non-terminal features you find most useful . You can turn off all the AI if you want, and also control what editing features are surfaced (e.g. file tree, diff view, etc). Would love feedback on how to improve the experience.

> You can turn off they AI if you want

Since your company is basically based on this agentic coding thing, i really don't see why anybody would run Warp without AI. Why not use a normal terminal then? Oh yeah, to waste space on disk and to use more RAM: we have plenty

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by alokedesai »

mulhoon wrote: post #65

Pretty happy with Warp so far. The vertical tabs are a game changer, having all my projects down the side and flipping between them (each one having multiple split terminals) works really well compared with horizontal tabs. Looking forward to each update.

Appreciate the kind words!

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by Muhammad523 »

ahmadyan wrote: post #2

Congrats on open-sourcing warp. May i ask what was the decision process behind this? What was the benefit of open-sourcing warp, as it is already a mature and established product. Also did devin cli had any impact on the decision to open-source warp? Also how does a repo gets 29k starts in matter of 2 hours?

They made a blog post about it [0]. I haven't read it yet, but it might answer your question.

[0]: https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by james2doyle »

hmokiguess wrote: post #22

I swear I tried. I installed warp maybe 4 times after long intervals. At each time I always ended up with the same feeling as my initial impression: overwhelming. I think I’m not the target demographic for it, I’m fine with iTerm2 and Ghostty, but I somehow still feel this void where I wish the terminal was a little more abstract and rich, just not to the level Warp takes it. I wish there were an in-between solution…

I feel similar. I have been using cmux over the last few weeks: https://cmux.com/

Seems to fit a good balance for the way I want to use my terminal

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by james2doyle »

Esophagus4 wrote: post #5

I really like Warp. I’ll admit the UI has changed a lot recently and I find it more intimidating than when I was using it a year ago, so I mostly use Ghostty now.

I noticed that too. I’ve been using cmux (based on ghostty, has a more basic UI) and have been happy with it: https://cmux.com/

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by ferfumarma »

shimman wrote: post #7

Still feel extremely negative towards this company for tweaking an Alacritty fork then using that to get a $50million venture round then giving zero money towards Alacritty, an open source library that the founder completely owes their career too. Not shocked they partnered with another company that is fine with raping the commons for profit, OpenAI. They definitely did some git cleanup to remove this fact too going…

This is a shortcoming with permissive licenses (such as MIT).

If you want to prevent your own project from being taken from you, then AGPL3 is your best option.

If you don't want to stifle adoption then you can always offer bespoke licenses to companies who need them (at a cost to them, and a profit to you).

Until hackers understand the risk of permissive licenses, this will continue to happen.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by nickstinemates »

joshribakoff wrote: post #47
hmokiguess wrote: post #22

I swear I tried. I installed warp maybe 4 times after long intervals. At each time I always ended up with the same feeling as my initial impression: overwhelming. I think I’m not the target demographic for it, I’m fine with iTerm2 and Ghostty, but I somehow still feel this void where I wish the terminal was a little more abstract and rich, just not to the level Warp takes it. I wish there were an in-between solution…

Check out kitty if you haven’t yet.

having to kitty-ssh or whatever to set appropriate terminfo otherwise it breaks was really irritating when i was trying it out. has that been fixed?
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