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Re: OpenWarp

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Post by bt1a »

brisket_bronson wrote: post #111
avaer wrote: post #28

I don't use Warp, but it seems to me they did something cool (terminal app), pivoted that attention into a profitable AI play, but a lot of people just wanted the terminal app. Now nobody knows what Warp is anymore, because they want to be an Agentic IDE and that's not what the users want. Do I have that right? I don't see what the point of this OpenWarp fork is though, other than adding more provider support. Couldn…

Warp is a terminal for people who don’t like the terminal.

guessing it spits you out on Win11?

Re: OpenWarp

#122

Post by james2doyle »

touristtam wrote: post #70
zachlloyd wrote: post #49

Warp founder here. It's cool to see the community excitement here. Note that we are going to add bring-your-own-model directly into Warp. Would love interested folks to weigh in on the discussion here: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/discussions/9619

Long overdue - I was all in a few years ago with Warp, but after the last couple of years of not addressing this need, I have moved on from Warp. I now DO NOT see the need to embed AI into the terminal when you can have all sorts of TUI doing the same job.

Looks like there is a "neuter" fork out there: https://github.com/GarethCott/warp#whats-different-from-upst...

Re: OpenWarp

#123

Post by james2doyle »

timmg wrote: post #5

Maybe it's just me, but I'd love a "ThinWarp" -- just the terminal with the great UI, etc. I can run Claude Code there or whatever. But I personally don't need the AI in the terminal itself.

There seems to be a "neuter" fork out there that disables a bunch of stuff: https://github.com/GarethCott/warp#whats-different-from-upst...

Re: OpenWarp

#124

Post by hbn »

That pretend demo that's running commands near the top of the page is pretty annoying, it resizes itself as the text changes so even when I'm scrolled to the bottom of the page, everything keeps jumping up and down as the height of that element endlessly changes

Re: OpenWarp

#125

Post by SwellJoe »

bestouff wrote: post #80
SwellJoe wrote: post #4

"OpenWarp is a community fork of Warp's open-source code. It is not affiliated with Warp Inc. and follows the upstream AGPL / MIT dual license." It is rude, and possibly a trademark violation, to fork a project and use the same name. And, how can there be a "community fork" when there is no community? It's just been Open Sourced 24 hours ago.

Warp is already an Alacritty fork with no acknowledgement. I feel they deserve no respect for this. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939527

I don't know anything about that (I didn't know what Warp was until yesterday, still kinda don't know, as it seems to be a terminal plus AI and I don't know what that actually means). But, alacritty's license seems to allow proprietary forks.

The license requires copyright notice to follow the code and that seems to be present: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/6d7a01cc9727472a1bcb...

I dunno if they adhered to the license previous to open sourcing, though, as you have to include it somewhere in the actual binary distribution, as well, and some folks don't do that. And, that's also shitty and unethical.

Re: OpenWarp

#126

Post by hbn »

SwellJoe wrote: post #61
Hasnep wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree on the name, but to me the word community here is used to mean it's not run by a company.

Historically, it means a community of developers have decided to break with the old project for some reason. Jenkins is a community fork. Mariadb is a community fork. Joomla is a community fork. Illumos was a community fork. Rocky Linux is a community fork. Valkey is a community fork. This is a personal project by someone with no connection to the project or its code. It is misleading to claim to represent the Warp "…

> Historically, it means a community of developers have decided to break with the old project for some reason.

That seems more like it should be called an "alumni fork"

"Community" makes more sense for people who aren't necessarily affiliated with the official project but were in the community that spawned around it.

Re: OpenWarp

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Post by SwellJoe »

hbn wrote: post #126
SwellJoe wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Historically, it means a community of developers have decided to break with the old project for some reason. Jenkins is a community fork. Mariadb is a community fork. Joomla is a community fork. Illumos was a community fork. Rocky Linux is a community fork. Valkey is a community fork. This is a personal project by someone with no connection to the project or its code. It is misleading to claim to represent the Warp "…

> Historically, it means a community of developers have decided to break with the old project for some reason. That seems more like it should be called an "alumni fork" "Community" makes more sense for people who aren't necessarily affiliated with the official project but were in the community that spawned around it.

I've never seen the term "alumni fork" used.

Re: OpenWarp

#128

Post by hbn »

WD-42 wrote: post #11

What even is Warp now? I remember it as the electron terminal and totally dismissing it. Then I think I read it got the RIIR treatment, but there was already Ghostty and Alacritty by then. Now it looks like it’s another AI thing? What the heck is warp???

> I remember it as the electron terminal and totally dismissing it.

Pretty sure it's Rust with their own UI framework

Re: OpenWarp

#130

Post by SwellJoe »

helloplanets wrote: post #87
touristtam wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Long overdue - I was all in a few years ago with Warp, but after the last couple of years of not addressing this need, I have moved on from Warp. I now DO NOT see the need to embed AI into the terminal when you can have all sorts of TUI doing the same job.

What about when SSHing to an external server, or working in a container?

I wrote a little wrapper to start tmux with two panes open, one pane is an ssh connection to a host and one runs Claude Code, with an auto-generated CLAUDE.md telling Claude to use tmux commands to interact with the remote host (https://github.com/swelljoe/tandem). Agents can also use ssh, but I wanted an interactive way to poke around on a remote system and also be able to ask Claude to look at or do something on its own without copy/paste.
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