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I will never be able to get behind a subscription-based terminal, with so much competition in the FOSS space for terminals, there’s just no reason to.
That’s the one problem. An LLM enhanced terminal sounds great. Sharing every command with the cloud does not.
I’ve been using Warp for months and didn’t know that it had a subscription service. It isn’t in-your-face about it at all, and so far I haven’t run into any limitations that have asked me to pay for the paid version. Like seriously, I thought it was just free.
Why is Rust-based a feature? I don’t care how your tool is built, I care for what it can do and how usable it is.
It’s got AI too, which means it’s extra sparkly good. But points deducted for no blockchain features or running as a bunch of microservices.
Rust generally means more stable software. Anyone who’s developed a Rust app knows how uncompromising the borrow checker is.
I checked the about page and damn… It is a for profit company and quite a big team! It consists of 26 people (!) to build a terminal… It is probably going to be a subscription at some point… Not for me.
Damn, 26 people, let’s assume they get paid reasonably well, though they probably aren’t all developers. I’m going to assume 100K on average, just spit balling.
That’s two and a half million dollars per year to build a terminal (very conservative estimate). And, like, does it reeeeealy do more then other terminals? Especially when you include different shells with plugins? AI, it’s so hot right now, but it is better than zsh or fish autocomplete? I built the simplest AI shell script to ask GPT-4 questions, easy, many FOSS options already out there, is that not good enough for people?
Yeah, I’m just having trouble figuring out how this isn’t a waste of time and will implode when seed funding dries up.
I will never use a terminal that requires a subscription to use my own damn computer.
I think the devs have already been made aware, but warp is also the name of a well known web framework for Rust.
Yes; I met one of the devs a while ago, and we had to have a little disambiguation conversation when he said, “I work on Warp.”
How is it? Anyone have tried it yet?
I love it, has lots of sensible things that should have been fixed forever ago. You can just edit the input like normal text.
It makes blocks out of output which makes navigating output much easier
It’s very good, much better than any other terminal I’ve used—and by a lot. Being able to click/highlight to edit commands and see running background tasks back up where you ran them? Incredible. The AI is also super useful for folks (like me) who only do some terminal tasks occasionally. I can just be like “how do you print just the status code with cURL” and it will tell me, rather than me spending a bunch of time in docs.
Want a great, FOSS, Rust-powered terminal? Check out WezTerm; I use it daily and it’s amazing.
Ooh, I might give this a shot. Currently using
kitty, but this looks like a great alternative.