Warp is now open-source

12 points by sanxiyn

kingmob

As a long-term Warp user, this makes me hopeful. I started using it well before the rise in AI, because Warp offered excellent performance, but more importantly, a rethink of what the terminal should look like in the 21st c.

Warp turns the terminal into more of a REPL/chat, and less of a grid of characters. There's a permanent input box at the bottom, with lots of little metadata that usually shows up in your $PS1. The input behaves like the rest of your OS inputs, leveraging muscle memory.

Each command adds to a growing stack of cells above with command+output. You can copy a whole cell, or just its output with a right-click, without highlighting the exact output. You can search just a single cell's contents. (It still falls back to a fullscreen grid of chars when needed, depending on the command.) Ctrl+R pops up a GUI history search.

I wouldn't say it's been 100% smooth. The way the input works interferes with custom keybindings. And I have no strong opinion on Warp's collaboration features or AI strategy, other than to note its command suggestions/autocomplete is quite good at guessing the next command I want to run.

Ultimately, I want to see terminals+shells become REPLs, like FANOS or the headless shell protocol, but that requires a level of cross-industry coordination bigger than any particular shell/terminal.