[WD-42]

What even is Warp now? I remember it as the electron terminal and totally dismissing it. Then I think I read it got the RIIR treatment, but there was already Ghostty and Alacritty by then. Now it looks like it’s another AI thing?

What the heck is warp???

[pianoben]

Warp was always an AI thing, as I recall - the seem much heavier on AI bandwagon nowadays, but their whole thing was a terminal for teams where you could share knowledge and command palettes and generate stuff.

[quasigod]

Their "Introducing Warp" post from 2022 actually doesn't mention AI: https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp. They introduced Warp AI in 2023: https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp-ai

I was pretty interested in it when it was just trying to be a modernized terminal. I still think some of the UI ideas are cool.

[pianoben]

Gotcha, I must have encountered them later on then - thanks for posting the receipts!

I was a happy user for a while, but eventually some bugs drove me back to iTerm2 (in my case, hanging forever after certain terraform commands finished). Ghostty has filled my need for a better terminal since then.

[corvad]

Warp didn't start out as AI, IIRC they started with auto completing terminals.

[hbn]

> I remember it as the electron terminal and totally dismissing it.

Pretty sure it's Rust with their own UI framework