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Re:Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age by jauntywundrkind on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:18PM (#36609157)
I watched a coworker screen share using Warp & was heavily impressed.

Warp have set a big hurdle to get over by making the top-of-funnel so harsh a winnowing function. But every time I see criticism against Warp, it's one and only one point. I'm not so willing to completely rule out & discard technology because it has one particular gotcha that yes i too snobbishly would reject.

Letting oneself be too quickly polarized is a weakness. We have to be willing to consider that we're wrong, that factors we think are important might not matter as much as they do. Or to consider that our perspective/assessment is wrong (such as assuming Electron is always a enormous resource hog).

Re:Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age by el_memorioso on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:46PM (#36609429)
What in Warp heavily impressed you?
Re:Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age by jauntywundrkind on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:28PM (#36609743)
The popover historic-sensitive autocomplete was incredibly helpful & superbly semantically aware.

The separators between commands enhanced readability in ways I would never have guessed possible.

Re:Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age by aaravchen on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:10PM (#36610603)
See that's one of the things that _didn't_ impress me. It's basically just a fancier way of doing what's already available in stock Fish installs and slightly tuned zsh ones.
Re:Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age by jauntywundrkind on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:27AM (#36611281)
Well apologies I guess for not making my case better, geeze. It's not easy to describe in words.

The visual indicators here were incredibly clear. The terminal's ability to go beyond textual representations & to clearly delineate - with nice slick graphics that far surpass the terminal - what's happening was deeply compelling, in a way I never would have guessed before seeing it.

I've tried some pretty nice/fancy neovim setups (mostly discarded, now on AstroVim 3) and while I appreciate what they can offer, I can't emphasize enough how great Warp was at presenting information in an effective fashion. The visual experience really understood what helpful information it could present in a powerful way.

Being skeptical that "just a fancier version" has nothing to offer you seems like a callous & shallow disregard. My experience was brief, maybe 30 minutes, and I want to do better justice & I'm sorry I haven't. But you also haven't left the door open to maybe consider that the fancier version is fancy for good reasons, that it has real & competent ergonomic & informational value. Let's meet in the middle & both try to do better.

Re:Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age by drcongo on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:00AM (#36613170)
I've also been rejecting it out of hand, but downloading it now having read your comment. It would need to go a long way to supplant my iTerm2 / Fish set-up, but I'm intrigued.