But as I learned when I was leading engineering on Google Docs – and as Dylan showed with Figma – every productivity application is more powerful when it’s collaborative.

Secondly, up until Warp, terminals have been inherently single-user, local applications. In short, Warp makes the terminal work for the developer, rather than the other way around. Moreover, Warp makes command-entry fast and fun by suggesting commands for commonly used tools and providing built-in workflows that save developers time. Input works like a modern text-editor, and output works like a data notebook.

Warp makes input and output easy, and removes the need for most configuration. Even then, seemingly simple things like copying a command’s output or positioning the mouse cursor were still difficult. To get good at using a terminal before Warp, users had to do all sorts of complex configuration, master arcane key shortcuts, and memorize abstruse commands. These are pain points that I’ve personally experienced again and again in my twenty years as an engineer, and I’m sure readers feel the same. We are doing this by fixing the two biggest pain points that exist in today’s terminals: So why is the terminal experience still so lackluster?Īt Warp, our product vision is to bring the terminal into the present in order to help developers build the future. Only 70% of developers use VSCode, while 100% use the terminal.

Compared to using VS Code, using the terminal is like stepping back in time to the 1970s. The code editor is where developers write code the terminal is where they do pretty much everything else, from building code to running and deploying it, interacting with source control, configuring their cloud systems, and more.Īnd yet only one of these two apps – the code editor – has experienced meaningful product improvement over the past 40 years. Walk by any developer’s desk and you are likely to see two apps open: their code editor and their terminal (sometimes the code editor is the terminal!).īoth are crucial to developer productivity. We are also excited to announce that we’ve raised some funds to grow Warp ($23M), both from wonderful firms ( GV, Neo, BoxGroup) and world-class operators like Dylan Field (who led our Series A), Elad Gil, Jeff Weiner, and Marc Benioff.

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