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Hi HN, I’m Zach, from Warp. Excited to get feedback on what we’ve been working on. Happy to answer any questions!

by zachlloyd 5y ago

byproxy 5y ago
Not sure if I missed it on the website, but...is this to be a paid product?
- zachlloyd 5y ago
  The terminal itself is totally free We may add paid features for enterprises around collaboration, and other things on the server that would cost us money to support.
sandreas 5y ago
Why closed source?
- methyl 5y ago
  It will be probably easier to monetize.
- techrat 5y ago
  *crickets*
cs702 5y ago
Looks quite nice. A few questions: * How do you expect to make money from developers using Warp? * What's the source code license? * Where's the source code?
soperj 5y ago
When are you going to be on other platforms?
- zachlloyd 5y ago
  We are building a web version now using WASM and WebGL. Next up will be Linux, followed by Windows.
urmish 5y ago
Does is rely on OpenGL drivers to compile? (whenever its available as OSS). An option to compile it by disabling any hardware acceleration (kitty does require openGL I think) and disabling fancy animations/effects would be great for getting this installed at my workplace. I currently use an not-so-recent version of konsole and its a pain to customize. Kitty, which I on my personal machine is pretty good for customizations and is desktop agnostic too.
er4hn 5y ago
Zach, looks like a cool product! How would you say this differentiates itself from Teleport Ssh? I can see at a glance there this is written in Rust (vs Golang) and seems to be based on being a full terminal (vs being an application run on the terminal).
terhechte 5y ago
I'd be curious: Did you use any of the existing Rust UI frameworks? (Druid, Iced, Femtovg, etc) or is it all custom build on something like wgpu? If it is all custom, congratulations the rich text layout looks really, really good (something of a sore spot in the current set of pure rust UI frameworks). Great product! I signed up for the beta, excited to try it out.
- alokedesai 5y ago
  Thank you! The UI framework is entirely built in house with the help of Nathan Sobo (co-founder of the Atom text editor). We definitely considered a few of the options on https://www.areweguiyet.com/ https://www.areweguiyet.com/ but ultimately found none of them supported the requirements we wanted. You can find more details about why we decided to build our own UI framework in the "How Warp Works" blog post we wrote here: https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/ https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/
Telemakhos 5y ago
macOS's built-in Terminal app is notorious for not handling meta + non-letter keystrokes properly, which is a real pain for emacs users who need a meta-shift-uparrow, for example. Does Warp handle these key mappings, and can they be customized (i.e. option = nomal, option, or esc+) like in iTerm2?
billconan 5y ago
how does auto-completion work? will it force me to use shells like fish that has auto-completion built in, or I can use bash?
steveklabnik 5y ago
Any chance of supporting nushell?

Hi HN, I’m Zach, from Warp. Excited to get feedback on what we’ve been working on. Happy to answer any questions!

byproxy 5y ago

Not sure if I missed it on the website, but...is this to be a paid product?

zachlloyd 5y ago
The terminal itself is totally free We may add paid features for enterprises around collaboration, and other things on the server that would cost us money to support.

sandreas 5y ago

Why closed source?

methyl 5y ago
It will be probably easier to monetize.
techrat 5y ago
*crickets*

cs702 5y ago

Looks quite nice. A few questions: * How do you expect to make money from developers using Warp? * What's the source code license? * Where's the source code?

soperj 5y ago

When are you going to be on other platforms?

zachlloyd 5y ago
We are building a web version now using WASM and WebGL. Next up will be Linux, followed by Windows.

urmish 5y ago

Does is rely on OpenGL drivers to compile? (whenever its available as OSS). An option to compile it by disabling any hardware acceleration (kitty does require openGL I think) and disabling fancy animations/effects would be great for getting this installed at my workplace. I currently use an not-so-recent version of konsole and its a pain to customize. Kitty, which I on my personal machine is pretty good for customizations and is desktop agnostic too.

er4hn 5y ago

Zach, looks like a cool product! How would you say this differentiates itself from Teleport Ssh? I can see at a glance there this is written in Rust (vs Golang) and seems to be based on being a full terminal (vs being an application run on the terminal).

terhechte 5y ago

I'd be curious: Did you use any of the existing Rust UI frameworks? (Druid, Iced, Femtovg, etc) or is it all custom build on something like wgpu? If it is all custom, congratulations the rich text layout looks really, really good (something of a sore spot in the current set of pure rust UI frameworks). Great product! I signed up for the beta, excited to try it out.

alokedesai 5y ago
Thank you! The UI framework is entirely built in house with the help of Nathan Sobo (co-founder of the Atom text editor). We definitely considered a few of the options on https://www.areweguiyet.com/ https://www.areweguiyet.com/ but ultimately found none of them supported the requirements we wanted. You can find more details about why we decided to build our own UI framework in the "How Warp Works" blog post we wrote here: https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/ https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/

Telemakhos 5y ago

macOS's built-in Terminal app is notorious for not handling meta + non-letter keystrokes properly, which is a real pain for emacs users who need a meta-shift-uparrow, for example. Does Warp handle these key mappings, and can they be customized (i.e. option = nomal, option, or esc+) like in iTerm2?

billconan 5y ago

how does auto-completion work? will it force me to use shells like fish that has auto-completion built in, or I can use bash?

steveklabnik 5y ago

Any chance of supporting nushell?