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0 pointscolonwqbang4y ago0 comments

Why would it be easier to port Warp to a new system compared to Bash, Python, Perl, etc.? These tools are widely used to automate workflows and are already ported to any system you would probably care to develop on.

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steveklabnik4y ago· 3 in thread

You aren't the one porting Warp, but you are the one porting the shell script.

colonwqbangOP4y ago

So programs/workflows written in Warp will be portable without much effort, in some way that an equivalent shell or python script isn't? Why do you think that?

steveklabnik4y ago

It seems like you’re grouping a bunch of things together and saying I have opinions about them that I don’t. Let’s break them out:

workflows I would assume to be portable, yes. It is an assumption. I generally expect program configuration to be mostly cross platform by default.

I’m not sure what a program written for a particular terminal would be, so I’m not sure if I’d assume portability or not.

Shells are not ubiquitous, even if they are available across platforms technically.

Python is truly cross platform and largely ubiquitous.

Thats a good question. In the end Warp programs/scripts will be written in just yet another interpreted language.

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