Your terminal hasn't changed in 40 years. Warp reinvents it — with AI command search, blocks-based output, and IDE-like text editing.
What is Warp?
Warp is a modern terminal built in Rust with GPU rendering. It treats terminal output as structured blocks, includes AI for command generation, and has IDE-style text editing (click anywhere, select text, copy without prefix junk).
Why Warp Is Different
1. AI Command Generation
You: "find all files larger than 100MB modified in the last week"
Warp AI: find . -size +100M -mtime -7
You: "compress all png files in this directory to webp"
Warp AI: for f in *.png; do cwebp "$f" -o "${f%.png}.webp"; done
You: "show me the top 10 processes by memory usage"
Warp AI: ps aux --sort=-%mem | head -11
Press # to ask Warp's AI. It generates the command and explains it.
2. Blocks-Based Output
Every command and its output is a "block":
- Click a block to select it
- Copy output without prompts/prefixes
- Share a block as a permalink
- Collapse long outputs
- Search within a block
3. IDE-Like Text Editing
Traditional terminal:
- Navigate with arrow keys only
- Can't click to position cursor
- Can't select text naturally
Warp:
- Click anywhere to position cursor
- Cmd+A to select all in input
- Shift+click to select range
- Multi-cursor editing
- Text wrapping in input
4. Workflows (Saved Commands)
# Save reusable commands with parameters
name: Deploy to Production
command: |-
git checkout main &&
git pull &&
npm run build &&
npm run deploy -- --env={{environment}}
parameters:
- name: environment
default: production
5. Command Palette
Cmd+P → search for any action:
- "split pane right"
- "theme dark"
- "ssh config"
- "git status"
6. Native Rust Performance
Keystroke latency:
iTerm2: 16ms
Alacritty: 8ms
Warp: 6ms
Scrolling (10K lines):
iTerm2: Choppy
Warp: Smooth 120fps
Warp vs iTerm2 vs Alacritty vs Kitty
| Warp | iTerm2 | Alacritty | Kitty | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Built-in | No | No | No |
| Blocks | Yes | No | No | No |
| Text editing | IDE-like | Traditional | Traditional | Traditional |
| GPU rendered | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Workflows | Built-in | Profiles | No | No |
| Platform | macOS, Linux | macOS | Cross-platform | Cross-platform |
| Price | Free (individual) | Free | Free | Free |
Getting Started
# macOS
brew install --cask warp
# Linux
# Download from warp.dev
The Bottom Line
Warp makes the terminal feel modern. AI command generation, structured output blocks, and IDE-like editing — it's what the terminal should have been all along.
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