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I like my terminal as it is and I don't feel the pain outlined in the problem statement. The pain I feel is performance — I need my prompt to be instant; for a

I like my terminal as it is and I don't feel the pain outlined in the problem statement. The pain I feel is performance — I need my prompt to be instant; for a while I had to wait ~300ms for each render, which in terminal land is basically a year. For collaboration there's tmux/tmate. The completion examples already exist in my relatively meagre oh-my-zsh setup. The other completion stuff is done with fzf. I generally don't like GUI stuff, and as for "developers work across machines", well, this old Steve Losh gem[0] comes to mind: > I can count on my balls how many times I've sat down to program at someone else's computer in the last five years. It just never happens. That said, I think Warp looks great, and there's definitely space in the world for more terminal options. This could be an excellent gateway drug to entice more developers over to using the CLI, which is an obvious positive. Way too many programmers are hampering themselves by not working with the terminal. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/2c3cuu/a_quick_tour_of_steve_loshs_massive_vimrc/cjc4jnj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/2c3cuu/a_quick_tour_of...

thedracle 5y ago
I agree, I am definitely happy with my terminal experience in general, and there is an equivalent for most of the features using a combination of TMux/ZShell/vi mode, etc etc... It actually feels like I'm living less of my life in UIs these days, and more in the terminal than I did in the 90s/early 2ks. I've definitely felt some performance improvement using Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
- yunohn 5y ago
  I think most people aren’t comfortable building a strung together shell environment, full of third-party tools to enable things like completion, search, sessions, etc. HN might have a lot of people who do, but I’d anecdotally wager that even that isn’t much. Having a terminal that has everything out of the box, without breaking due to incompatibility between the various tools, is a MASSIVE improvement.
  - thedracle 5y ago
    > I think most people aren’t comfortable building a strung together shell environment So please don't take my comment here as a critique on Warp. I was responding to the sentiment "I like my terminal as it is and I don't feel the pain outlined in the problem statement." As in I too feel this way. I recognize there are a lot of people who aren't me, and feel differently about things than I do. I imagine the desire for configurability and customization is similar to the argument between Vim/Emacs and IDEs. Some people love the customization, plugins, and building a tailored solution. Some people are going to love the out of the box feature set of something like Warp. The core I was trying to respond to really, was "The pain I feel is performance," which I also strongly relate to, and I wanted to call attention to another excellent Rust based terminal, Alacritty, which really has excellent performance for those of us who like cobbling together our terminal environments.

thedracle 5y ago

I agree, I am definitely happy with my terminal experience in general, and there is an equivalent for most of the features using a combination of TMux/ZShell/vi mode, etc etc... It actually feels like I'm living less of my life in UIs these days, and more in the terminal than I did in the 90s/early 2ks. I've definitely felt some performance improvement using Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

yunohn 5y ago
I think most people aren’t comfortable building a strung together shell environment, full of third-party tools to enable things like completion, search, sessions, etc. HN might have a lot of people who do, but I’d anecdotally wager that even that isn’t much. Having a terminal that has everything out of the box, without breaking due to incompatibility between the various tools, is a MASSIVE improvement.
- thedracle 5y ago
  > I think most people aren’t comfortable building a strung together shell environment So please don't take my comment here as a critique on Warp. I was responding to the sentiment "I like my terminal as it is and I don't feel the pain outlined in the problem statement." As in I too feel this way. I recognize there are a lot of people who aren't me, and feel differently about things than I do. I imagine the desire for configurability and customization is similar to the argument between Vim/Emacs and IDEs. Some people love the customization, plugins, and building a tailored solution. Some people are going to love the out of the box feature set of something like Warp. The core I was trying to respond to really, was "The pain I feel is performance," which I also strongly relate to, and I wanted to call attention to another excellent Rust based terminal, Alacritty, which really has excellent performance for those of us who like cobbling together our terminal environments.