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Comment · 4 years ago

thanks - will follow up once the dust settles!

Comment · 4 years ago

Hey - that's a good point. The thing about terminal benchmarks is that there are many of them, each focusing on a different aspect and producing different results. There's one by alacritty team[1] that we used in our initial tests[2], there's another ones mentioned in the comments above etc. When using vtbench, Warp performed much better than iterm, for example.

Ideally we'd ace all of them, but we're not there yet. Anecdotally, many of our users mention speed/performance improvements over other terminal apps a lot in our Discord!

[1] https://github.com/alacritty/vtebench [2] https://www.warp.dev/blog/how-warp-works

Comment · 4 years ago

It's also worth mentioning that we didn't "just copy" Alacritty. We actually collaborated with Alacritty creators when starting Warp.

Comment · 4 years ago

Hey - in general, yes, we do talk to our Users on a regular about the product (in fact, I first participated in the research session, and only after that decided to join the company).

I assume you're asking specifically about discussing telemetry and open source, not only the features. We try to be super open about collecting the data, and published an extensive list of things we report. Most of our users don't mind. Those that did, messaged us directly about it and shared their feedback. Some even decided to trust us after exchanging emails, talking to the team and seeing us improving the messaging based on their feedback.

Regarding open source - it is not just a vague promise. We do have plans on doing it, many team members joined the company because they want to contribute to the community. We actively discuss this topic with our community on Discord and Github. I'm personally super excited about our UI framework, and can't wait until we open it up to other people (we recently added some a11y support, which is super cool and not as common among the Rust frameworks). Here's the github discussion for more context: https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/discussions/400

However, we understand that our current mode of operation won't (and honestly, can't) please everyone, so it's not surprising that there are people who don't agree with this approach.

Comment · 4 years ago

Mind popping out to our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/warpdotdev? We can sort it out there more easily

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks for the kind words! We actually did (and still do) talk to our Users via Discord, github issues, as well as 1-1 User interviews.

In fact, I participated in a very first user research sessions (back then it was me and the ENTIRE WARP TEAM) almost a year ago, and after a session like this I decided to interview with the company and changed my job, and joined Warp :))

Comment · 4 years ago

Hey! Actually, Warp does have a "quake mode" - you should give it a try (Settings -> Features -> Hotkey Window)

Comment · 4 years ago

We are actively working on a11y! It's still a work-in-progress, but the goal is to a) make Warp the most accessible terminal there is and b) make a11y be an integrated part of the UI framework, so creating accessible apps in rust would be a no-brainer for future users of our framework.

And yes - once we go cross-platform, we will work on the a11y support there too.