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Warp! - A new way to use your command line

Chamal Randika on February 24, 2024

This is the most innovative thing that has happened to command line interface of operating systems in this whole decade!💡 You might be wondering...
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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

Logging in? For my teminal? No thanks.

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Chamal Randika

Wait for a lil bit bro. They promise to open source this one. Once that done, you can fork it and make your own custom build. 😌

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Daniele Scasciafratte

It is clear that will not happen soon warp.dev/blog/open-source-and-logi...

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Gabriel Andres

You don't need to log in to use it :)

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

From their docs:
"Logging into Warp (Required)
Unlike classic terminals, Warp requires you to sign up and log in to get started with the app."
docs.warp.dev/getting-started/gett...
Sorry, it seems you're wrong.

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Daniele Scasciafratte

Yes it is needed confirmed in the ticket, in case after you logged in and you don't have internet works anyway.
github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/900

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Gabriel Andres

It's not, I'm using it and I don't have an account or logged in. Try it yourself.

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

It's required and stated on multiple documents on the Warp website, docs and github. I guess you're just wrong. Stop trying to gaslight us into something we simply can disprove from primary sources.

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Daniele Scasciafratte

Tested and asks that, doesn't ask at every run if you already logged in or you are without internet.

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

Well, yeah, why should it, if you're logged in already. But I don't want to have to have an account, and to log for my terminal in any way.

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Kevin Naidoo

This is nice! the only concern I have is this terminal is connecting to a third-party service.

Considering how powerful the terminal is, and if you run "sudo" or some privileged command, what is this terminal collecting? and what measures are in place to safe-guard users if a data leak occured?

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Chamal Randika

🤔 hmm.. I didn't thought about that.

The telemetry is optional though.
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They also say that they'll open source the full terminal in near future so finger crossed for that. 🤞

You can read more about privacy at here - warp.dev/privacy/overview

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Kevin Naidoo

Thanks, yeah that sounds great! an open-source version would be much safer and more transparent than a closed source product.

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Puneet-Kumar2010

It is not available for Windows. So, as an alternative you can use Termius
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It also looks like IDE:-
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Tony Do

I have just installed and run Warp on my WSL2, so technically there is a workaround for it to run on Windows aside from your method. I will write a script for this soon enough.

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Chamal Randika

That's cool. ❤️

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Chamal Randika

Wow 😮 I didn't think Termius is this much advanced. I'll give it a try dude. Thanks more mentioning this ❤️.

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Anton

Big no no no for Login to use the terminal. Look great, but trust no one.

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Chamal Randika

better wait till they open source it then ❤️

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Anmol Baranwal

I've used hyper till now since I'm a fan of clean UI.

It's not that bad, since I've adjusted everything based on my preference.
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Warp seems like a good option for sure :D

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adriens • Edited

I asked one of my internship @spencer_forrest_opt to give it a try. He was on Mac to get his feedback. It was very positive and I was quite impatient to give it a try myself on my Ubuntu.

I'm a ohmyz.sh, so now I'm benching both to see if I switch or not 💭

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Chamal Randika • Edited

I'm also using the default terminal + oh-my-zsh + powerlevel10k as my daily driver.

But this one is promising tho

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Peter Witham

I used Warp for a while, and I was impressed. I get that it needs to use some third-party services, and I'm sure the people behind it have good intentions. But what if some of those connections get taken over by bad actors? (I know a lot is optional to report back)

I will watch the project as it matures to see where it goes, and I wish them the best. For now, though, I'm still iTerm2 committed as it takes a beating daily for production use.

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tnypxl

It needs to support TMUX or provide a way to do multi-session cursors.

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Ben Sinclair

I haven't seen any posts about Warp for quite a while - but it looks like their main news is Linux support, which is a good thing.

But Oh-my-zsh isn't a terminal, so I'm not sure how that is supposed to work?

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Chamal Randika

Yeah oh-my -zsh isn't a terminal but I just included it show that even the functionalities of a framework like that can also be replaced with a customizable terminal like Warp. Thanks mate for reading article to the end and providing your feedback. much appreciated 😊 ❤️

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RESTful_Otaku • Edited

Just get nvim, a few useful plugins and lsps and tmux then call it a day. Embrace keyboard life.

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ben ajaero

I've been using Warp for months! It's great!

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Charlie Evett

Second that. Very happy user.

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James 'Dante' Midzi

Mac only... I'm out. Peace!

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Chamal Randika

windows version will come out soon ig 🙁

but u can always try it on Linux of you want

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James 'Dante' Midzi

That decision to prioritise Mac tells me everything I need to know.

I have terminals that work, so I'm not going to go through trouble to test out another one.

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tnypxl

Nearly every org I’ve worked for over the past 15 years equip their developers with Macs. The only thing prioritizing Mac should tell you is that it’s where most developers are.

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Jake Lundberg

I’ve been using Warp for a long time now and have absolutely loved working with it. glad to see others are starting to like it 😀

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Alex

Too much bloat for a terminal emulator. I’m perfectly fine with kitty

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ben ajaero

Nice article man!

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vannear

Is there any approximate timeframe for the windows version?

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Chamal Randika

Not yet 😔

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Cyborg

This is really a good looking app but it seems that i can't run it on my Debian 12, i have no error at all but the frame is not drawned on screen...

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Chamal Randika

Aw man that's sad 😢
Try changing the distro if you can

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Ngoran Aristide

For a terminal? Nah

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Cyborg

I would like to but its my work 😭

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Johnbosco Umeh

id love to try this out

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Bart Zalewski

Top-notch quality post!

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Chris Cook

Unfortunately it doesn’t integrate into VSCode, at least when I tried it the lad time. I can recommend Fig as an alternative that works with zsh and has autocompletion.

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Chamal Randika

It does integrate now, but not the way the default terminal does tho. it comes as a pop up window which I don't like either.

Hope they'll make a better integration for the final stable release. 😌

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Trill Astro Buzz

I can confirm that Warp is incredible and it’s replaced my Mac terminal almost completely as my go to CLI.

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Syed Maarif al-Kadhim

Wonderful! but u gotta reduce the animations.

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Chamal Randika

Good point ☝️😌

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Raheem Miah

Looks great!

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Trill Astro Buzz

Actually half of the stuff that makes it superior are things you can custom create or save as a favorite.

So just like grade school you have to put your name on your backpack so it doesn’t get lost. Use it or not, I don’t care, they’re not paying me.

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Matin Mollapur

yeah, actually it's a great terminal, i use it in a ChromeOS and a Ubuntu and i have to say that it's aaaawesome, specialy free AI feature is great!!