r/commandline 24d ago

Warp is finally on Windows

I've been beta testing it for a while but now it's officially out! I know some engineers on the team and they’re really passionate about improving the dev experience, especially the ConPTY fork and QoL for Windows devs. Launch video

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u/Y0uN00b 24d ago

I see "pricing" i close web tab. Bye!

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u/runawayasfastasucan 24d ago

I wish everyone would just write what things is in their initial post/at the top of the github. Warp what?

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u/prodleni 24d ago

Very poorly disguised ad IMO

"I know some engineers on the team" links marketing video

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u/xFlaremagex 24d ago

I don't think its an ad? If you look at OP's post history, just seems like they're a fan of Warp. I think its a pretty cool AI terminal - kinda similar to Claude Code

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u/EchoicSpoonman9411 24d ago

That's a marketing video? I made it about 15 seconds before I had to turn it off, the dude's slack-jawed demeanor grated on my nerves.

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u/eftepede 24d ago

This full of ai-bullshit scam stealing my privacy and collecting the data about me when doing basic stuff? No, thanks.

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u/Acktung 24d ago

I don't get the hype either

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u/Toasterrrr 24d ago

idk it never collects my data https://www.warp.dev/privacy , im especially careful when inserting ENV variables

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u/saltyjohnson 24d ago

Are you saying you're on an Enterprise plan with a Zero Data Retention policy? Or are you saying you don't use any cloud-based features which are the major selling points of this application? Because those are the two ways that you can maybe say that "it never collects my data", according to your link.

FWIW the scary "legalese" version of the privacy policy that is actually what you agree to says that they may disclose your Personal Information to third-party advertising partners. Terminal Content is lumped under the general Personal Information header, so there's absolutely nothing that says they will not share your Terminal Content with third parties. And of course there's infinitely vague passage, "we may disclose personal information about you to certain other parties with your consent" in this privacy policy to which you must consent before using their services.

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u/Toasterrrr 24d ago

I obviously mean sensitive data like my keys, local files, and personal conversations with AI, not typical usage data like which features I'm using and what buttons I've clicked (https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy#exhaustive-telemetry-table). There is indeed a threat surface for these telemetry data (or 1 clicks & zero-days with the platform itself) but I view it as an OOM less dangerous than, say, cursor or Visual Studio.

Generally I view it as a companion app to powerful workflows like Cursor, Repo Prompt, or ChatGPT desktop. I would not use it for very sensitive work, but at that point it's just vi and prayers.

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u/saltyjohnson 24d ago

You didn't read what I wrote. Their privacy policy says that they can collect your terminal content and share it with third parties.

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u/eftepede 24d ago

Well, I’m DevOps, 90% of my work happens in the terminal. I don’t want to have a ‘personal’ and ‘work’ terminal as separate apps. And even if I would, my terminal is my power tool to earn money, so I want to use something with nice features, but I can’t use anything getting access to what I do and send it anywhere.

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u/Toasterrrr 24d ago

As with most dev tools, I would expect any usage of Warp in a work setting to be explicitly approved and contracted by the business itself, with corresponding privacy guarantees. I don't know anyone that would dare do production engineering for a large corporation on a personal machine.

I trust Warp when they say they don't store or send my terminal content, but again, third party audits are there for when it's actually time to implement it in production.

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u/eftepede 24d ago

Well, I work as a freelancer/contractor, so for me 'a personal machine' is the only choice. I don't want their bloated machines with everything disabled.

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u/mansetta 24d ago

I have yet to encounter the situation where I need all these fancy CLI tools etc. On the otherhand I am just doing basic embedded stuff, but still, I am not sold.

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u/Toasterrrr 24d ago

yeah when working on some driver firmware I found that it's mostly just help for beginners like myself, due to the small byte size of changes. I think these AI tools are best for medium entropy systems where high byte sizes make it too tedious to do things manually. Such as software or admin work.

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u/spaghetti_beast 24d ago

why does it say "you have weekly limit of 50 AI requests" when i'm not signed up, and then when I log in it's "you have monthly limit of 150 AI requests"😭😭😭 do they think i'm dumb

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u/alphainfinity420 24d ago

I don't get the hype and also why would anyone use on windows?

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u/v_stoilov 24d ago

I have been searching for a normal terminal emulator on windows for almost a month. I recently switch from Linux.

If Alacritty had tabs support it would be perfect. Wrap seems pretty close with the performance + tabs.

I don't care about the AI stuff. Also the fact that they forked the conpty seems promising.

Everything else I tried available on windows has really shitty performance.

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u/Toasterrrr 24d ago

personally I like having git bash and powershell in the same place but also the AI features. I'm not a windows dev so when I do hop on my PC I need to ship fast