Warp is the modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.
Believe this terminal has been out for a while on other platforms, but just hit the linux market too. Personally been looking forwards to this one for a while, but don’t have any prior experience with it - so kinda hoping its as good as it looks.
Link: https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-for-linux
Edit: Some fair points in comments that terminals shouldn’t need cloud login. Personally thought that was an optional thing for people who wanted sync capability.
Terminal emulator with cloud sign-in. Ah yes, that’s exactly where I should be entering my root password. Genius.
Pretty sure this is just malware with extra steps.
I didn’t expect this to be something I would actually use but I was mildly excited to try it out just out of curiosity. Then it asked me to log in. Login to a fucking terminal emulator. I have no words.
Thought it was gonna be an optional thing… Feel disgusted for having even posted this now…
Yes, they are not very upfront with this requirement, almost like they have understood that people doesn’t like it, but instead of fixing it they just try to hide it from their marketing material. And that doesn’t feel shady at all…
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I was intrigued for a moment; installed the package; then got greeted with this – I don’t think I’ll proceed any further:
Annnnd that ended any curiosity at all I may have had for it…
This.
lol, yeah fuck that
What a horrible idea. Can you even use your terminal, when you are offline with this?
Requiring a login is enough of a misread of the market to kill interest in the product, but looking through their marketing materials, some other stuff jumped out at me.
Like on Mac, Warp for Linux is built fully in Rust and all graphics rendering is done directly on the GPU.
I’m sure it has fallbacks, but I wonder how it will handle environments where the gpu is broken and cpu rendering is being used…
And like on Mac, Warp for Linux supports zsh, bash and fish out of the box. It’s compatible with your existing shell setup.
I mean, yeah? I expect a terminal emulator to be able to support anything that has a stdin, stdout and stderr. The fact that it only lists three shells is concerning to me… Is it trying to do anything fancy with those shells? Will it respect .zshrc and powerline?
The input works more like a normal text editor (including mouse support) and has in-built completions, syntax highlighting, and support for multiple-cursors.
If you actually want those features, that’s your shell’s job. Not your terminal emulator. And presumably if you need these fancy features you’ll just use a normal text editor to make a shell script.
Warp’s integrated AI…
Don’t care. Let me turn it off or I’m not using your product.
[The terminal is] an unusually text-heavy and obscure interface.
You’re marketing a terminal emulator to Linux users who are going out of their way to change their terminal experience. They likely aren’t going to agree with you dismissing the command line as “obscure”.
It’s a space where you can save your most important parameterized commands as reusable workflows you can search, share, and run on-demand.
This is just
~/binandgitwith vendor lockin. Excellent value-add.nice malware
Why is this getting so many downvotes?
From their documentation
Unlike classic terminals, Warp requires you to sign up and log in to get started with the app.
So, yeah, it might be that people are not very impressed by a terminal that requires a cloud account.
But, if you don’t type anything sensitive on to your terminal, like passwords and such, then you should be fine…
Ah. Yeah that would do it. I absolutely do not want a terminal that makes me login to some sort of cloud account.
@LunchEnjoyer all day im like ‘why are people running os/2 warp suddenly?’
I’ve tried it out. The block oriented command execution is neat, but yeah, they absolutely could do without the cloud login and AI shit
