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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by eddyg » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC

miav wrote: post #9

Holy shit this made my day. Warp’s convenience shell wrapping is amazing. It’s the only terminal where I can actually edit a long command in place rather than copy pasting into an editor and doing so there. Now I’m more or less assured I can retain this convenience without being forced into more AI crap.

^X^E in bash takes your current prompt and moves it to your $EDITOR.

for zsh:

  autoload edit-command-line
  zle -N edit-command-line
  bindkey '^X^E' edit-command-line

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by sudb » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

I've been trying to figure out what the long term play is here - is it an angling for a frontier lab acquisition? Or does open-sourcing put Warp in the same sort of category as OpenCode - where charging for LLM tokens becomes the main commercial driver?

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by melaniecrissey » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 8:32 PM UTC

SoKamil wrote: post #29

Can I use it now without logging in?

They got rid of the login requirement a long time ago: https://www.warp.dev/blog/lifting-login-requirement

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by aniceperson » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 8:49 PM UTC

tedd4u wrote: post #19

taupi wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

GitHub is going to go after this too (unsurprisingly). Working "Ace" prototype from Github "lab." https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment/

the presenter is pretty sane, but the product is hardly a product at the current scenario. pretty much codemirror 6 collaborative editing demo + vm running claude code, with a web GUI. will fall apart with large code bases just like vscode, github codespaces and co. do, and expensive for llms to run against. Would be nice to see the foundational problems being worked on instead of regurgiting what everybody is doing.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by jeffyaw » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC

nebben64 wrote: 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…

check out yaw terminal for a terminal first experience that also treats ai cli as a first class citizen. and if you're on windows is very dialed into git bash.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by Sytten » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

Great terminal, annoying that everytime it updates I have to go back to the settings to disable new AI features or layout changes.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by dominotw » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 9:01 PM UTC

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.

can you share more about what makes it so great. this is the first i am hearing about it , so i am curious.

i currently use tmux and ghostty for my workflow

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by NoGravitas » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC

Was hoping this was about OS/2. Nope, all AI grifts.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by avaer » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

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.

You could probably few-shot this yourself by pointing at the repo. I'm 95% sure it can be done in a day end-to-end.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by dominotw » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 9:26 PM UTC

jeffyaw wrote: post #35

nebben64 wrote: 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…

check out yaw terminal for a terminal first experience that also treats ai cli as a first class citizen. and if you're on windows is very dialed into git bash.

no. stop spamming this crap.