LOL, no. "CEO of warp". I like my terminal because it's a dumb text terminal, not because it's smart. At least you'll reach the majority normie users and make some dollar there.
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#162If you want to use a terminal that is actually open source and doesn't have telemetry, much less only available via signing in with GitHub, use Alacritty, also written in Rust and cross platform. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Or Kitty, which does more or less the same things but includes split and tabs and other convenience features.
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#163I love the idea of mixing terminal and documentation, kind of like a terminal notebook. I wish there was an open source project that was basically just a shell/bash jupyter notebook and nothing more. So many little scripts, makefiles, project setups, etc. would be way easier to understand and maintain if they were mostly markdown documentation with some big "Run this" buttons next to the code blocks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page
If there's a 1970's technology in bad need of an update, it's the man page format IMHO. Markdown is far easier to quickly learn and write.
But you completely missed my point of computational notebooks + shell and I'll just respond in kind with a link that you should research yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter
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#164I was interested until I learned that the application is blazingly fast :/
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Warp engineer here. FWIW, the Warp terminal will be free for individuals. We would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. So no paywalls around SSH or anything like that. The types of features we could eventually charge for are team features. Our bet is that the moat is going to be the team features, like: - Sharing hard-to-remember workflows - Wikis and READMEs that run directly in the terminal - Sessi…
What would be the advantage over version controlled shell scripts?
(Not affiliated with Warp but care about this particular thing)
Shell scripts implies, well, a particular shell. If everyone is on similar OSes, maybe that works for you, but as a Windows user, "pile of bash scripts" might as well be "doesn't work for you." I use a terminal for my daily work, but don't have bash installed on my machine.
That said, I haven't tried Warp yet specifically because it's Mac-only right now. Even within that context, Warp integrates with Bash, Zsh, or Fish, which do have their own extensions to POSIX shell, but at least you can rely on Bash being installed.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I'm ready to have SaaS models replace core utilities and tools locally. > Announcing Warp’s Series A: $17M to build a better terminal And just thinking about this... it's not clear to me what their moat will be as I suspect if there's a really compelling feature it will be available in OSS terminals quite quickly. Perhaps it's the product polish? But I'm not sure polish is what I want from a terminal, at…
I doubt their compelling features will be in OSS terminals any time soon. I’ve wanted a terminal that has a decent multi line editor for years , and there’s nothing out there.
Vim supports multiline editing and I'd imagine emacs does as well.
In bash/zsh, opens up $EDITOR so you can use whatever you're accustomed to anyhow.
Most of these features are already available if one spends a bit of time configuring their terminal/shell.
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#167A company receiving receiving $23 million usd to build a terminal is about the dumbest thing I've seen this month. I would've figured it to be a April Fools joke if posted a few days earlier. Why is a company building a terminal? How are they going to earn money at all when there are other fast, performant terminals that are open source, community run, and don't have interests at-odds with user freedom and privacy? I…
they’ll have a business offering which lets people collaborate
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#168Really appreciate that Linux support is on the roadmap. Was going to flame for yet another mac-only app, but looks like cross-platform support is on the horizon so appreciate it!
Thank you :) We are looking forward to build that.
Rust has pretty extensive platform support, which makes it relatively simple for us to do that.
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#169Just tried it too.. Justified worries over closed-source & telemetry/github sign-in, but holy cow it's good. I especially like the just right minimal amount of settings – nothing extra, nothing missing – and fantastic minimalistic docs that gives understanding of all features and all hotkeys in like 10 mins.
Impressive.
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#170It looks nice but I'd never use a shell that phone's home. Period. I mean the CLI has been one of the last parts of my system that I really still trust is working on my behalf only. This product made me rethink that assumption. As for capturing the output from a command line on the mac (and also on linux IIRC) just use pbcopy/pbpaste. My opinion: It's not worth giving your privacy away for features like this.
Do you use Windows? Have you ever opened its terminal? Congrats, you're using a terminal that you agreed can phone home with telemtry. See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk... and the link to the privacy policy for windows terminal http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=521839
I suspect OSX is no different and has similar telemetry and privacy policy for its terminal.