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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by Analemma_ »

ed_mercer wrote: post #49

I never really understood why anyone would use this when you can just fire up claude code from your favorite terminal.

It's not like this is where they started: Warp dates back to 2020 and probably had an initial strategy of "just build a really nice, fast terminal emulator and figure out the money later", which honestly isn't the worst idea in the world.

The AI integration only came years later, and they probably figured maybe they could compete in the space with Cursor, repl.it, etc. And then Claude Code came and just devoured everything, while Google bought Windsurf, Microsoft pushes Copilot, and OpenAI has Codex (while at the same time kitty and ghostty also built really nice, fast terminal emulators)

I agree I don't think they have any real shot and I certainly wouldn't recommend investing in their next round, but it's not like this was their plan all along, they went where the winds were blowing.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by subarctic »

ed_mercer wrote: post #49

I never really understood why anyone would use this when you can just fire up claude code from your favorite terminal.

I used it because of the integrated voice to text (since apple's built in dictation is terrible) but stopped using it when i replaced it with superwhisper

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by frenchie4111 »

taupi wrote: post #12
arionmiles wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price? Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already. I feel like their funding is drying up and this is their last ditch effort to have the "community" build their product for them. They claim agents will run the show, with inputs from community in the form o…

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

And of course harness [1] (I kid, this is my tiny personal project in the same space)

[1] https://harness.mikelyons.org

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by wey-gu »

Interestingly i had been building a terminal in rust and libghostty(with Linux and windows supported too) with built-in agent that understands terminal, too.

And the motivation was warp is doing a little bit more than a terminal.

https://con.nowledge.co

Glad to see now warp is open-sourced

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by GorbachevyChase »

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.

This is a pretty good used case for vibecoding. “Claude, take this project and rip out all the obnoxious monetization and vendor lock in.” It just might do the trick. I’ve been to get rid of a fair bit of paid software by just cloning the parts I want with little more than a high-level description.

I don’t think the approach of open source as a substitute for a quality program is going to last.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by mplanchard »

As someone who was interested in warp in the early days (new rust terminal!), but who would never use a closed source terminal, this feels like a pyrrhic victory, since I don’t care at all about the AI accoutrements.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by godelski »

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/

  > writing code is now fast, it's getting cheaper, and quality is going up to the right
I'm unconvinced... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
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