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 ~/bin and git with vendor lockin. Excellent value-add.