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sbankowi
I was hoping that this was an opensourcing of OS/2. (With the recent DOS announcement, I guess one can only dream.)
gnabgib
An oft-repeated comment:

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SwellJoe
"OpenWarp is a community fork of Warp's open-source code. It is not affiliated with Warp Inc. and follows the upstream AGPL / MIT dual license."

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.

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

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

blitzar
I would like to introduce my new venture, OpenOpenAi.
ElijahLynn
Agreed. They should not be using the name Warp inside of the fork.
timmg
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
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
bluegatty
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.

zachlloyd
We have a way of turning off all the AI if you don't like it (Settings > AI > turn it off). I get the desire here.
gregpr07
Why not just use ghostty at that point?
notatoad
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?
Vaslo
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
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
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???

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

mark_l_watson
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 $20/month account -- just like the original Warp

I very much wish the OpenWarp folks would have made this clear on their README.md file.

zero-lab
You need to switch to the openWarp branch, master is the official code
keyle
What does "100% local credentials" mean as a feature?
zachlloyd
Warp founder here. It's cool to see the community excitement here.

Note that we are going to add bring-your-own-model directly into Warp. Would love interested folks to weigh in on the discussion here: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/discussions/9619

hendersoon
That was exactly my question; why fork? I assumed the project owners were preserving their business model, but if you allow it to be opened-up and turn off the cloud features, I see no reason to fork.
jFriedensreich
I don't think this should be dismissed as a cheap and rude ripoff. I'm no expert in trademarks or the naming convention part of the story, but for the rest: warp is not a great company taking far too long to roll back its weird account requirement, tracking users, enshittifying the core terminal experience with often unwanted AI and other crap features and dismissing annoyances that are brought up by 100eds of users. We need to show companies they need to behave or will be crushed by the community.
zero-lab
In fact, I think warp software is very good, but it also has many imperfections. Forking this branch is not to split it. If warp does better one day, this branch may be deleted, but for now I prefer my own~
nektro
at this stage, this being a fork instead of a pr is really weird
taosx
I feel this is the wrong way to go about things and I agree that it rude. Why not start by engaging with the warp project and see if some of this work could be upstreamed and if you like warp, target longevity?
johntopia
why the fck does openwarp make any sense if warp is alr opened up? lol
zero-lab
If you receive an existing warp then you don't need openWarp
egorfine
So, Warp with telemetry removed?
tyleo
This is the most broken website I’ve ever visited on HN. From Safari on iOS:

1. Im getting non-English text

2. The size of my page is well beyond the width of my screen making it hard to scroll vertically

3. Constant popping/reflowing due to animations

Trust this company with my credit card? I think not.

zero-lab
There is something wrong with you. Who asked you to give me your credit card? If you don’t need it, don’t pollute your eyes with nonsense.
jordemort
was hoping for OS/2, disappointed
joelthelion
How does Warp/Openwarp relate to Opencode or Claude code?
cassianoleal
They all use LLMs as a backend for certain features?