_A_andrei_·Dec 9, 2022
I see no benefits in using Warp over a regular (and more supported) GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
It's just "prettier" out of the box, and it seems to market quite a bit to people that either don't know how to configure their shells, or don't know what they're doing.
- If you want fuzzy command, history, file / contents search, use fzf [0] (you should probably be using fzf and ripgrep [1] anyway if you work daily in your terminal).
- If you want sessions, use a multiplexer like tmux [2] or zellij [3].
- If you need to have your own "cheatsheets" use navi [4]. If you want to sync them with your team, use whatever sync solution you like.
- If you think you need a text editor in your shell's command line, reconsider. If you *really* want to edit and re-execute the last command in your editor of choice, use something like "fc $!
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" [5] or create your own shell solution for it.
- If you want a sexy prompt use starship [6].
- If you want terminal sharing use tty-share [7].
- If you want to ask GPT for help, don't do it in your terminal. Open up ChatGPT (or whatever future UI will exist), ask your question, and check that there's nothing harmful in what your about to execute. Sometimes friction is good.
For each of these ^ pieces of software there are tens and hundreds of alternatives.
If you want a terminal that's pretty out-of-the-box, where things are "clickable", you don't have the time or interest to invest your energy in learning tools that could massively boost your productivity for years to come, and you don't care about designing your own workflow and being able swap parts of it at any point, without depending on any single "app", and if you don't mind "logging into your terminal" (what the actual fuck, excuse the language) or the terminal adding its own SSH wrapper and doing things you don't know to the hosts you connect, then maybe Warp is OK for you. But then again, maybe you're not going in the right direction.
There are so many more awesome ways you could improve your shell experience than making things clicky. I don't understand what the market is for Warp, is it for wanna-be professionals that can't be bothered to become professionals? I completely fail to see how this could succeed as a paid product, especially with a subscription model.
[0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
[1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
[2] https://github.com/tmux/tmux
[3] https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij
[4] https://github.com/denisidoro/navi
[5] https://shapeshed.com/unix-fc
[6] https://starship.rs/
[7] https://github.com/elisescu/tty-share