Warp—The blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal

I feel the same! In fact at work we just started using rust for some internal tools. So I have every excuse to dedicate some time to learning it.

The text editing features within the input line are huge for me. I love being able to navigate that space using standard Mac keyboard navigation. opt + left/right, cmd + left/right, combing those with holding shift in order to select text, adding line breaks and being able to use multiple cursors. Those have been difficult to impossible for me to setup in other terminals. That being said I hope they do more to allow you to navigate output blocks.

Blocks are great too! This week at work I was trying to get a build script to work after updating node, with blocks it allowed me to navigate the output for each attempt very quickly and compare them. You can copy blocks quickly and easily for sharing as well.

The cmd palette is really nice. It feels natural after getting used to it in VScode (GitHub has one now too, cmd + k). It just made it easy to start using Warp without needing to know all of the keyboard shortcuts or what function were possible.

I think Raycast although not a terminal, fits in here as well. They’re all startups building tools for developers. They want to make the the tool itself free but sell additional services along side it that companies will be interested in. I’m curious if it will work. Though hopeful since I think the tools themselves are compelling.

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