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Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

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Who cares that it's Rust if it's closed source? Also: "All cloud features are opt-in. Data is encrypted at rest." The fact that this even needs to be stated makes it a hard no, especially for a terminal emulator.

If you “hard no” so easily, then what else may you be missing out on?

Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

#52
post #27

Who cares that it's Rust if it's closed source? Also: "All cloud features are opt-in. Data is encrypted at rest." The fact that this even needs to be stated makes it a hard no, especially for a terminal emulator.

Assuming that it wasn’t a rhetorical question: I do. I spend 1/3rd of my day in terminal emulators, and anything that reduces the number of stupid (normally memory corruption) crashes that interrupt my work is a legitimate value proposition for me. Edit: This isn’t an endorsement of this particular product, to be clear. I don’t know anything about it, except that being written in a fast, memory safe language endears…

I can't remember my terminal emulator ever crashing, much less crashing due to memory corruption. Maybe I've just been lucky.

Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

#53
post #27

Who cares that it's Rust if it's closed source? Also: "All cloud features are opt-in. Data is encrypted at rest." The fact that this even needs to be stated makes it a hard no, especially for a terminal emulator.

Do we care even if it open source? The use of Rust is an implementation detail and shouldn’t really matter.

Alacritty is open-source and written in Rust with great performance. I don't see a reason to use Warp yet.

Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

#54

Somehow it feels odd that an implementation detail like the programming language it's implemented in is so prominent in the project's description. I have no idea what bash is written in and frankly I don't care much about it. It's a tool that enables me do be more productive. Could it be faster? Probably, but does anyone even notice that in the context of all the other things that we do _with_ it? Are there any benef…

Well just a total guess but since it has a tiny bit more OO than C (traits) it could be argued it has a slightly better (aka more clearly obvious) ability to have plugins which is definitely possible in C, but it means you can pass a thing around that can do certain things for you, whereas in C there's a lot of crufty stuff to do that.

Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

#55

Hi HN, I’m Zach, from Warp. Excited to get feedback on what we’ve been working on. Happy to answer any questions!

I'd be curious: Did you use any of the existing Rust UI frameworks? (Druid, Iced, Femtovg, etc) or is it all custom build on something like wgpu? If it is all custom, congratulations the rich text layout looks really, really good (something of a sore spot in the current set of pure rust UI frameworks).

Great product! I signed up for the beta, excited to try it out.

Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

#56
The text editing features (multiline, multiple cursors) are something I've really wanted from a terminal for a long time. Editing long/complicated commands in most terminals is not a great experience, so the point that I normally copy and paste from my text editor. A little wary of this if it's not open source, but looking forward to being to try it out.

Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

#57

Somehow it feels odd that an implementation detail like the programming language it's implemented in is so prominent in the project's description. I have no idea what bash is written in and frankly I don't care much about it. It's a tool that enables me do be more productive. Could it be faster? Probably, but does anyone even notice that in the context of all the other things that we do _with_ it? Are there any benef…

there's been a lot of the "[blank] (but in rust)!" posts here lately, much like not too long ago node.js was the new best thing.

Do you remember what was the cool thing before that? LISP? I'm interested in the history of hype in HN

Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

#59
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming that it wasn’t a rhetorical question: I do. I spend 1/3rd of my day in terminal emulators, and anything that reduces the number of stupid (normally memory corruption) crashes that interrupt my work is a legitimate value proposition for me. Edit: This isn’t an endorsement of this particular product, to be clear. I don’t know anything about it, except that being written in a fast, memory safe language endears…

What terminal are you using that crashes so often? I’ve used Linux and Mac terminals for ages and cannot remember one terminal crash.

Same for me in Linux and Windows. If your terminal regularly crashes because of memory corruption, there’s something wrong with your setup.

Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

#60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there's been a lot of the "[blank] (but in rust)!" posts here lately, much like not too long ago node.js was the new best thing.

Do you remember what was the cool thing before that? LISP? I'm interested in the history of hype in HN

golang, maybe?
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