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Comment by danielvaughn | Hacker News Reader

I've been using it for the past few weeks and it's really sleek. I actually don't use the AI features very often because I'm fluent in the terminal, but it's nice to know it's there if I need it.

Some people get weirded out by the fact that it's VC funded and they collect telemetry, but I think you can turn that off.

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I loved Warp for it's speed, but the keybindings and lack of configuration didn't work for me. For example, it doesn't support "ctrl+x ctrl+e" which I use daily for editing long prompts in vim.

I recently switched to Kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) and I don't think I'm ever going back. It's not flashy and doesn't have any AI features. It's just a donation-funded, wickedly fast, highly configurable, dotfiles-friendly, modern terminal emulator.

I tried kitty and it had a noticeable lag on startup. It bothered me at a gut level so I stopped using it, but I should probably give it another look.

The only thing holding me back from loving Kitty was its behavior when ssh’ing, even if ssh was aliased to kitty +kitten ssh. Namely, that if you sudo’d to another user, the TERM settings were lost and so backspace became space (among other things).

Today, I finally figured out to export XTERM before sudo, which fixes it. Hallelujah.

Again, business model: Juicero for bash.

Collecting telemetry, and being able to tie it with people's GitHub profiles, is why Warp was able to secure millions of VC dollars to build a fucking mOdErN terminal emulator.

i love warp.

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