OpenWarp

It is rude, and possibly a trademark violation, to fork a project and use the same name. And, how can there be a "community fork" when there is no community? It's just been Open Sourced 24 hours ago.

nothinkjustai•58m ago

Not rude, not the same name.

simplify•49m ago

Definitely rude, too close to the same name. Warp just recently open sourced their client, a [not community] personal fork should be more considerate.

Hasnep•45m ago

You probably can't name a project OpenWarp for the same reason you can't name a search engine OpenGoogle, even though it's a different name to the original. In this case, it's particularly confusing because the original warp project _is_ now open source.

kreelman•27m ago

I used Warp a bit on Windows. It looked promising, but didn't work quite as well as I would have liked. It's great that it's been open sourced.

Does anyone keep a DB somewhere of open source project names?

I think it would be better to give the code fork a different name.... And maybe move it off Github!!

BeetleB•25m ago

You can't name something OpenGoogle, because the Google name is trademarked.

Is Warp trademarked?

satvikpendem•19m ago

Yes it is, as another person has replied.

iamveen•51m ago

Domain Squatting 2.0

Hasnep•44m ago

I agree on the name, but to me the word community here is used to mean it's not run by a company.

jrm4•43m ago

In no universe is this rude. That's ridiculous.

Warp made heavy use of open source itself, and then realized that even more open was the only good way to make this work.

They should be grateful. This is the entire point of free and open source software. (even if this isn't 'free' licensed, it's still a good thing)

selcuka•27m ago

This is about the name, not the source.

Also calling a fork "Open" is disingenious. They wouldn't be able to fork it if the original wasn't "open".

BeetleB•26m ago

Definitely disagree about rudeness.

Only a trademark violation if a trademark has been registered. IANAL.

selcuka•21m ago

https://uspto.report/TM/90342558

> WARP® trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of [...] Downloadable computer terminal emulator program [...]

ai_slop_hater•19m ago

How were they able to register it? So many other things are named Warp, for example Cloudflare Warp.

selcuka•13m ago

Cloudflare Warp is also trademarked: https://uspto.report/TM/88455403

They are the same class (Class 009, software and electronic goods) but apparently the trademark examiner determined that a terminal app and VPN/security software are distinct enough not to cause a confusion.

timmg•1h ago

Maybe it's just me, but I'd love a "ThinWarp" -- just the terminal with the great UI, etc.

I can run Claude Code there or whatever. But I personally don't need the AI in the terminal itself.

phillipcarter•1h ago

Claude Code is very capable of making a terminal emulator with exactly (and only) the features you want. I did that for myself and it's now my daily driver. Has a few goodies I care about but nothing much else, and I have no intention of adding features for other people: https://github.com/cartermp/term

Scarbutt•58m ago

A personal Mac terminal emulator built for terminal-based AI work.

How exactly does it help with "terminal-based AI work"?

bluegatty•43m ago

A terminal with AI focused on doing terminal-ish stuff is actually kind of useful.

I just never did enough of it to keep going.

If they expanded this to be highly optimized for devops aka really well attuned to AWS CLI all the various linux commands, bash scripting and just had all of that baked right in - and - was super fact and didn't have to think to much - I can see that.

The reason being, your doing 'specific tasks at a meta level' - not designing complex things, or doing research.

More like Claude Code but not for code, for DevOps and or that kind of things.

I think 'Meta Prompting' should be a thing for many disciplines.

That said, the 'bitter pill' lesson is that the Tier 1 models just really get good at everything and often supersede custom solutions - which was the case for myself and Warp, I just 'did stuff in Claude' and it was good enough.

notatoad•1h ago

for somebody not in the know... what is this? the website doesn't seem to explain much. i can add models to warp, but what's warp?

esafak•1h ago

A terminal: https://www.warp.dev/

avaer•46m ago

> Warp is the agentic development environment

So not a terminal?

dmix•23m ago

It's a very competent terminal.

The AI stuff is layered on in a way where it doesn't get in the way. Very useful for command completion and stuff like that, without having to open claude.

Vaslo•48m ago

You aren’t the only one who didnt get this off the bat. I still don’t understand why I do this instead of just typing Claude my terminal

daemin•1h ago

I've looked at Warp before and seen that it has some potentially useful features for a command line terminal program, like having each command be its own little history window which you can scroll independently and collapse. (I might have imagined/inferred those from the screenshots of it working though). So an alternative implementation does sound interesting, but I would want it just to be a terminal, not with any AI or agent stuff in it.

So alas this doesn't appear to be it.

WD-42•59m ago

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•25m ago

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•6m ago

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 modernize the terminal.

ChrisArchitect•45m ago

Warp is now open-source

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264

inspector14•36m ago

call it Worp

alexjurkiewicz•34m ago

There can be problems with open source projects run by for-profit companies, but this fork seems a little premature.

drakenot•33m ago

I hope they bring back the former UI that allowed you to explicitly toggle "AI / Agent" mode on/off in a terminal session, and gets rid of the Oz / Cloud Agent stuff.

I don't want this auto-detect agent request. The explicit toggle was perfect.

avaer•33m ago

I don't use Warp, but it seems to me they did something cool (terminal app), pivoted that attention into a profitable AI play, but a lot of people just wanted the terminal app.

Now nobody knows what Warp is anymore, because they want to be an Agentic IDE and that's not what the users want.

Do I have that right?

I don't see what the point of this OpenWarp fork is though, other than adding more provider support. Couldn't that just be upstreamed?

arrsingh•29m ago

What was the terminal app though and what was special about it that Ghostty didn't already provide?

edit: Found this one article (via google) that talks about the terminal. I guess it was a terminal that you could "prompt" to do things and it would figure out the shell commands.

https://thenewstack.io/developer-review-of-warp-for-windows-...

artyom•28m ago

Yeah, pretty much. I used it, but one day I opened Warp and it looked like a half-baked Cursor.

I liked it for the ability to type "git one-liner logs with date and author, no messages" and get the output without having to remember or look for actual formatting parameters.

I also get that's too niche of an use case, and not sustainable as a business. But still.

satvikpendem•17m ago

I much rather would use Warp now because I am looking for an agentic IDE, not looking to replace my terminal which I use daily. I don't want to use Cursor or VSCode because it's Electron and can be slow, while Warp has their own custom Rust-based GUI based off an early version of Zed's GPUI so it should similarly be much faster.

quasigod•15m ago

Yeah that's pretty much my opinion on warp. I really liked some of the ideas used for the actual terminal side of it. The IDE-like prompt and completions, file tree, vertical tabs, etc. I mostly just wanted a terminal that was trying something new UI/UX wise.

Nowadays it just tries to do so much and seems overwhelming. I'll probably still give it a try once it supports Nushell, but I'll need to spend some time disabling a ton of the extra features.

watersb•29m ago

Not OS/2.

mark_l_watson•7m ago

A word of warning: I just installed OpenWarp from source, but it looks like it will not let me use my own provider without signing up for an $18/month account -- just like the original Warp

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