Warp is now open-source

mmeetpateltech about 3 hours ago 20 commentsRead Article on warp.dev

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Squarex•about 2 hours ago

I hope someone will create a lightweight version without AI and code editing stuff. The terminal experience is the best, but I don't have any use for the agentic stuff while having claude code, opencode, codex and plenty other options.

wxw•about 3 hours ago

> Open-sourcing is fundamentally coming from our desire to build a successful business. We are competing with other highly funded, closed-source competitors, and we think opening and providing the resources for the community to improve Warp is a smart way for us to accelerate product development. Yes, we are a VC funded startup, but we do not have the resources to compete on price or massively subsidize usage – we need to build our business by offering the best possible product to the most excited community.

Appreciate the candid take. Warp is great.

arionmiles•about 3 hours ago

Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price?

Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already.

I feel like their funding is drying up and this is their last ditch effort to have the "community" build their product for them.

They claim agents will run the show, with inputs from community in the form of ideas/specs/direction. I wonder how long that will be sustainable for given the subsidized model prices are collapsing as we speak.

Is this an attempt to pivot to something else while the "community" keeps their first product alive? Maybe I'm being too cynical here, but I don't see this as an act of good faith, especially given their roots in VC funding.

taupi•about 2 hours ago

They see their competitors as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, not ghostty or something.

tedd4u•40 minutes ago

GitHub is going to go after this too (unsurprisingly). Working "Ace" prototype from Github "lab."

https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment/

nebben64•about 2 hours ago

My main driver has been Ghostty but I've been looking at Warp for a while. Warp seems like a full on IDE (~ADE) though, as opposed to a minimalistic terminal. Can anyone add some thoughts? Are these 2 very different?

tangential: I've seen Mitchel tweet that people in SF have ran up to him showing him how they fully riced their Ghostty setup. How many people here have done this and how easy/manageable is it? e.g. just forking the repo and implementing whatever Warp feature I like?

larodi•about 2 hours ago

Warp failed to launch. Perhaps too much AI pushed onto the users in the early days that failed to show its charm.

Ghostty remains incredible stable and usable and fast compared to competition.

milch•about 2 hours ago

libghostty makes it pretty easy to do. I spent about two weeks setting something up until it was advanced enough to daily drive. I wanted to have a modal workflow similar to vim or tmux copy mode, but without having the overhead of using tmux... that's probably a lot more complicated than "I want Ghostty but with $X tweak". You can poke around in the repo to get a feel for what's involved if you want: https://github.com/milch/mistty

dkter•about 3 hours ago

Sad that they didn't open source the commit history. I would have loved to branch off of like 5 years ago when Warp was just a terminal, rip out all the AI and cloud shit, and turn it into just a nice terminal with some neat features.

kevincox•about 2 hours ago

As someone who released the source of an app that was always expected to be public I appreciate that it would be interesting but I'm not surprised. If the code isn't being regularly published there is just less incentive to be sure that every commit is "public ready". So when releasing I wanted to do a full review of current code (and especially comments and docs). This was tedious enough and even though we didn't find anything major and only a handful of things that should be cleaned I absolutely wouldn't want to do this for the full history.

Could we have just released it? Absolutely. But I think everyone who contributed felt better knowing that what was released had one final "ready for public" review. Then our regular review process handled that going forward.

danielbln•about 2 hours ago

Ironically a task that an AI agent would have no problem doing.

kevincox•about 2 hours ago

Yeah, it would have been a great job for an LLM. Although if you find something in the history you then need to make the annoying choice of history rewriting or just leaving it in.

JLGSpeer•about 3 hours ago

I really like Warp. It's a lot nicer to be able to visualize what I'm doing in the terminal. Some people don't like the AI features, but they only activate if you log in.

rstat1•25 minutes ago

Which when I last used it they forced you to do. I'm assuming this has changed in the several years since?

theappsecguy•about 1 hour ago

Maybe someone will finally add tmux/zellij support…

miav•about 2 hours ago

Holy shit this made my day. Warp’s convenience shell wrapping is amazing. It’s the only terminal where I can actually edit a long command in place rather than copy pasting into an editor and doing so there. Now I’m more or less assured I can retain this convenience without being forced into more AI crap.

swah•36 minutes ago

Just ask your agent to fork and remove it!

wredcoll•about 2 hours ago

Have you tried `C-x e`

jmclnx•about 3 hours ago

Well, very nice, will need to give it a try afer I check the requirements. I almost went to Warp from DOS but Linux arrived first.

EDIT: well looks like this is not OS/2 Warp. I wish the title would have noted this is somekind of app instead of just saying "warp".

esafak•2 minutes ago

It's ok to recycle names once every thirty years :)