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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by alokedesai »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #27

Oh great news. I was recently trying out the Agents layout and it fits my workflow so well. It has a familiar terminal interface but helps me manage multiple agents much easier than just using a ton of tabs in iTerm open at once. I The code review panel is the one thing I find especially useful, and being able to see each terminal pane as a separate “section” in the vertical tab layouts, along with automatic worktree…

Awesome to hear that the features are reasonating with you, thanks for the kind words!

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by zachlloyd »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #27

Oh great news. I was recently trying out the Agents layout and it fits my workflow so well. It has a familiar terminal interface but helps me manage multiple agents much easier than just using a ton of tabs in iTerm open at once. I The code review panel is the one thing I find especially useful, and being able to see each terminal pane as a separate “section” in the vertical tab layouts, along with automatic worktree…

Glad the workflow is working for you!

In terms of monetization, we actually don't monetize the terminal at all, we monetize our agent and our orchestration platform (www.oz.dev). Totally happy for you to use Claude or Codex CLI within Warp as your main driver.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by zachlloyd »

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.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by petcat »

unshavedyak wrote: post #26
shimman wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, these people need to know their actions are routinely hated in the community. They should be boo'd at conferences too.

I agree with you, BUT, we have licensing right? Ie couldn't the author have chosen a license that would have prevented this - if they had cared? I'm unsure if we should lose sleep over something the author likely chose. Its their right to not care how the code is used, maybe we should abide their wishes? Is there perhaps there's an issue with licensing? Eg there's no easy license akin to MIT for small time devs, but…

The biggest scam that was ever pulled was convincing software developers that the GPL was somehow bad and out of vogue and that open source should prefer BSD, MIT, Apache, etc instead.

And now we have entire threads like this of people crying because some company used someone's software exactly as the license allows.

It's a shame, but there really is no sympathy for projects that choose the wrong license. Stallman knew this decades ago and somehow even now we're still learning it.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by ahmadyan »

tnkuehne wrote: post #6
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?

> Also how does a repo gets 29k starts in matter of 2 hours? They used the repo for issue tracking since the beginning but before today the repo did not include source code of the client.

this make sense, thanks

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by ktm5j »

devin wrote: post #28
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 sort of can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not. It seems like you're explaining that in addition to not supporting the project from which your company spawned 50M, they also supplied free work for which they were never compensated. That's supposed to be better or something?

I mean, if they have a working relationship with each other then I guess the alacritty folks don't hate their guts. That's meaningful from my perspective.

Also remember that the $50m is not revenue that they can use however they want. They have an obligation to their investors to make money with it.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by ahmadyan »

zachlloyd wrote: post #15
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?

Warp founder here. Great question. I outline the thought process in detail in our blog ( https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source ) But the tl;dr is that I actually think we can build a better product, more quickly if we build it with our community + agents. I also think it's a unique product that I hope developers get a bunch of value from being able to customize and help improve. Our business is now mostly…

make sense, thank you for your response.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by jeffyaw »

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 my yaw terminal. iterm2 was absolutely an inspiration.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by giancarlostoro »

devin wrote: post #28
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 sort of can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not. It seems like you're explaining that in addition to not supporting the project from which your company spawned 50M, they also supplied free work for which they were never compensated. That's supposed to be better or something?

So if I use vim or emacs for free, or VS Code for that matter, I have to hunt down the maintainers and pay them? Do I need to empty my wallet for every project I use for free? Because that's not sustainable for normal people, let alone businesses.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by pzo »

AirMax98 wrote: post #3
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?

> OpenAI is the founding sponsor of the new, open-source Warp repository. Big bucks from OpenAI is my guess. I could guess the strategy is to try to take a shotgun approach at Claude Code.

Wondering if additionally OpenAI afraid of Cursor being bought by xAI
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