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My main driver has been Ghostty but I've been looking at Warp for a while. Warp seems like a full on IDE (~ADE) though, as opposed to a minimalistic terminal. Can anyone add some thoughts? Are these 2 very different?

tangential: I've seen Mitchel tweet that people in SF have ran up to him showing him how they fully riced their Ghostty setup. How many people here have done this and how easy/manageable is it? e.g. just forking the repo and implementing whatever Warp feature I like?

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Warp founder here. We actually are chatting with Mitchell about integrating Ghostty so it's the terminal grid renderer within Warp.

Warp failed to launch. Perhaps too much AI pushed onto the users in the early days that failed to show its charm.

Ghostty remains incredible stable and usable and fast compared to competition.

Warp is equally stable, almost as fast, while being more usable than Ghostty.

What makes you say that Ghostty is less usable than another?

Well, for starters, I get obscure errors if I get something wrong editing the Ghostty config file.

I think there's a reason people are very interested in libghostty. It's a fully-featured library to build off of, but Ghostty proper still lacks a lot of polish.

libghostty makes it pretty easy to do. I spent about two weeks setting something up until it was advanced enough to daily drive. I wanted to have a modal workflow similar to vim or tmux copy mode, but without having the overhead of using tmux... that's probably a lot more complicated than "I want Ghostty but with $X tweak". You can poke around in the repo to get a feel for what's involved if you want: https://github.com/milch/mistty

check out yaw terminal for a terminal first experience that also treats ai cli as a first class citizen. and if you're on windows is very dialed into git bash.

no. stop spamming this crap.

apologies, just trying to get the word out. and why is it crap? it seems exactly relevant to what i'm replying to.

well maybe meaningfully participate in the thread before pitching your product

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