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by zhengt 4y ago
We are seeing if people are using Warp regularly. We don’t know about any shells outside of Warp so technically, they could also using other terminals - but that’s enough info for our product development. We never track the contents of comm
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by zhengt 4y ago
Hi - Warp engineer here. Totally understand your skepticism and hesitation. Regarding open source, we want to do it for parts and potentially all of the code. We plan to open-source our extension points as we go. You can read more about thi
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by zhengt 4y ago
Right now, login is required while we're in Open Beta. When we GA, login will be opt-in (although you'd lose some of our cooler features).
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by zhengt 4y ago
Assuming you're on a shell that supports bracketed paste, it'll treat it as one block and execute all of the commands one after the other. The exit status will be that of the last command run.
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by zhengt 4y ago
Warp engineer here - thanks for writing about your experience! As cieplik mentioned, it's true that telemetry has not been mentioned as frequently as it has been on HN. > I think it does an amazing job of making the terminal easy an
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by zhengt 4y ago
Warp engineer here! The shell has arbitrary access to the environment, and there's a long tail of shell config to play nice with. For example, here's a fun technical read about how we supported PS1 and how the 9c byte caused some
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by zhengt 4y ago
Thanks for writing your thoughts! I can understand the skepticism and ultimately this is not far from the business we want to build. The terminal is totally free for individuals and our business model is to make the terminal so useful for i
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by zhengt 4y ago
Thanks for your positive feedback, Divan!
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by zhengt 4y ago
cieplik did a great job implementing support for VoiceOver and having a few blind engineers beta test the app
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by zhengt 4y ago
This is for cloud-enabled features not presently in other terminals. Right now, we have two relevant features: 1. The ability to share a "block" of input/output to a permalink that anyone can view. 2. A.I. command search. Lat
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by zhengt 4y ago
Warp engineer here - Thanks for your response! It's too early right now, but we are definitely going to open source parts and potentially all of the code.
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by zhengt 4y ago
Thanks for your response. Let us know how it goes with the app!
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by zhengt 4y ago
While this can be done in zsh/bash, it takes investment to understand how to use multiline specifically. And then once you leave the terminal, the same keystroke does not do anything for you. One of Warp is that you don't have to
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by zhengt 4y ago
The terminal is a surprisingly performance intensive application. When we built an initial prototype in electron, it was struggling to render full screens of text output on large screens. We want to support 144 fps on 4K monitors. Additiona
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by zhengt 4y ago
Warp engineer here - Thanks for being an early user! While folks have mentioned here that shells have powerful line editing capabilities, I've found that a lot of people miss this. We want to allow a broader set of people to be product
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by zhengt 4y ago
First of all, we love Alacritty: our terminal model code is based on Alacritty’s model code. We’re grateful that a few of the collaborators reviewed our early design docs. We think the two products are meant for two different audiences. Ala
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by zhengt 4y ago
Hi - Warp engineer here! Fully understand your disappointment and hesitation. The terminal is totally free for individuals. The general philosophy is that we would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. So no paywalls around S
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by zhengt 4y ago
Warp engineer here. Thanks for your note, glad to hear from a fellow engineer in this space! While there's a lot of great software that's free, the terminal is a tool tens of millions of developers use everyday - and there's
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by zhengt 4y ago
Appreciate you writing in! > I would easily pay $20-50 for a souped-up terminal (I spend all day in it), even a closed-source one, but the "we raised tons of money to build a free terminal and haven't figured out how to monetiz
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by zhengt 4y ago
Totally understand if you don't feel comfortable using it! The reason we don't submit this only during a crash, is because there are a lot of other things we want to know about users like: Which features are they using? Are they s
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by zhengt 4y ago
In addition to crashes, we also want to know things like: which features people are using so we can invest more in them, how much people are using the app so we know if we're doing in a good job. Totally understand if you're not c
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by zhengt 4y ago
We started with Electron/Typescript and pivoted to Rust when it was clear that the performance was unfeasible for certain workloads (e.g. scrolling on 4k monitors). If we already had a C++ terminal, I don't know that we would&#x27
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by zhengt 4y ago
Hi, Warp engineer here! Nothing against electron. We write this in the headline because people who see features like blocks or input editor automatically think "slow". So it's a succinct way to communicate that we have a snap
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by zhengt 5y ago
> terminal that requires an e-mail login Email is required only for the closed beta. Warp will be offline-first. All details here: https://www.warp.dev/privacy .
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by zhengt 5y ago
Our strategy here is to share sessions to the web, so collaborators don't need to download the app. It's fascinating how far utilities like screen will get you in functionality, but I agree it's really hard to get people on t
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by zhengt 5y ago
The data pertains only to opt-in cloud features. Warp is local-first. Note that the closed beta collects some info, so if you're not comfortable with that, please wait until our open launch. All details here: https://www.war
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by zhengt 5y ago
Alacritty is a different approach: they're building a traditional terminal. Warp is hoping to push the boundaries and build something different. Warp is a fork of Alacritty, their team was very gracious in collaborating and reviewing W