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softirq | 2 years ago

I've had a lot of trouble with commands in Warp going haywire because of how much magic there is in creating visual blocks, and it looks like Jet Brains is taking it one step further. The reason terminals are great is because they are dumb, standard interfaces where you can have full access to any system, local or remote, and directly execute binaries and interact with a command language like bash or zsh.

I feel like this terminal is counterproductive. It adds visual niceties at the cost of dumbing down the power of the terminal and removing terminal feature that will be confusing to regular terminal users. It really doesn't have to be this complicated to be useful.

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jdgoesmarching|2 years ago

On the other hand, it makes the terminal much more accessible for less regular users. I’ve really appreciated the extra tools of Warp as someone who’s in the terminal infrequently enough to forget most intermediate commands.