How Warp Works | Warp

Understand more about the product and engineering choices behind Warp - why Rust + Metal, compatibility with existing shells, UI elements, and intuitive editing.

Warp is a new high-performance terminal built entirely in Rust that makes you and your team more productive and the CLI easier to use. The input editor for commands is a full text-editor that supports selections, cursor positioning, and shortcuts like you are used to in other apps. Commands and their output are visually grouped into blocks , and existing shortcuts like up-arrow and ctrl-r have new visual menus to make them easier to use. In this article, I walk through how we built the foundation of Warp: the UI, blocks, and the input editor. Building this foundation ultimately helped us unblo

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