Some of the features make it sound dubious. "Real-time collaboration". Why would you bake that in your terminal?
Why wouldn't real-time collaboration be useful?
Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
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Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#92FYI, this appears to be a startup launching an e-mail signup for a product that isn't available yet. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it's worth noting up front. There is no download link and the GitHub link goes to an issues-only repo with no code. There are several fast Rust-based, GPU-accelerated terminal projects that are open source and under active development: Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/ala…
> There is another fast Rust-based, GPU-accelerated terminal project that is open source and under active development: I really thought 'Alacritty' came next! It's cool there are a few. If someone's looking for something popular and robust though, and not specifically interested in the cloud features of OP, Alacritty is pretty mature, actively developed, and also rust if you care.
Thanks! I forgot Alacritty was written in Rust. I added it to my comment.
Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#93May be consider a name change? There is a rust based web framework called warp. I know, totally unrelated except for the rust part but the annoying thing is that a search for warp always shows startrek stuff and searching with rust brings up quite rusted metal solutions stuff so I use warp+rust :)
Or Warp, the best-known Haskell web server: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/warp
Worst part is all inspired by a technology that is theoretically impossible and all picked by developers. It could be anything else that denotes speed in any human language but its warp always :D
(Off to work on my next project that will speed up note taking - probably going to name it after a technology in my favourite tv series)
Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#94Is Warp to terminal what Superhuman is to Gmail?
Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a "Request access" button above the fold.
Not the original commenter, but thanks. In my case the "Request access" button was blocked by uBlock Origin.
Good to know! You can find a direct link to sign up for the waitlist here: https://zachlloyd.typeform.com/to/yrwMkgtj?typeform-embed=oe...
Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#96Somehow 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…
We mention Rust primarily because it produces a really high-performance app and to make clear that it's not built using Electron or web tech. We wrote up a pretty detailed technical design if you're interested in checking out how we built and why we made the decisions we made: https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/
But who would expect Electron or web tech for a terminal?
Having written terminal code both in compiled and interpreted languages, and on machines about a thousand times slower than a typical modern machine, speed here is also much more down to algorithm choices - especially for rendering - than language.
I find the focus on FPS pretty odd as well, as really high update speeds for a terminal typically only comes into play if dumping huge amount of data to the terminal by accident, in which case typically handling scrolling properly is easily speeded up by skipping lines that need never be visible at all.
I do expect terminals I use to be low latency for normal operations, but that's a very different consideration.
Not objecting to your choice of Rust. Just like some others found it odd to highlight it near the top of your main page.
Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alacritty is open-source and written in Rust with great performance. I don't see a reason to use Warp yet.
Alacritty's performance in day-to-day use is actually very underwhelming, I tried to use it but there was just so many little lags left and right I promptly switched back to urxvt
urxvt was my workhorse for years; And I tried Alacritty + a tmux configure that emulated urxvt's tabs. It wasn't quite all the way there, wezterm is another one that seems to work well and has slightly improved rendering over urxvt, and I'm pretty happy with it right now, though it has a lot more bells & whistles.
Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#98Who 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?
Things that eat your data, your time, your money, your attention.
Fads.
Unicorns (but they probably don't exist).
Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#99Who 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.
> Who cares that it's Rust if it's closed source?
People who care about security.
Re: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
#100I don't get all these terminals/prompts in rust at the moment, is it the 'Todo list' of rust?