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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Supper Club × Zach Lloyd from Warp

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Technology, News, Tech News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Zach Lloyd about how Google Sheets works, why Zach wanted to build Warp, why did they use Rust to write Warp in, is Warp going to come to Windows, and more! Show Notes 00:20 Welcome 01:12 Who is Zach Lloyd? Zack on Twitter Zack on LinkedIn Warp Terminal × Next Gen Terminals — Syntax Podcast 579 Warp: The terminal for the 21st century 03:41 How does Google Sheets work? GWT 13:38 What is Warp and why did you build it? Introducing Warp 16:50 Why did you build Warp in Rust? Rust Programming Language Harfbuzz Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases 23:20 How would you move Warp to Windows? 26:02 How would you run Warp on the web? 31:24 How are the blocks done inside Warp? 36:23 Would Warp ever add a shell? 40:04 Is better completion support coming to Warp? 44:42 Warp AI features 52:08 Supper Club questions 56:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Tonal | The World’s Smartest Home Gym Machine For Strength & Fitness Shameless Plugs Join Us | Warp Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

I sure hope you're hungry who I'm starving wash those hands pull up a chair and secure that feedback

0:08.0

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and Wes Boss attempt to use human language to converse with and pick the brains of other

0:16.0

Developers, I thought there was gonna be food so buckle up and grab that a

0:21.1

Handle because this ride is going to get wild

0:25.7

This is the syntax supper club

0:30.5

Oh

0:36.4

Welcome to syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there today

0:41.4

We have Zach Lloyd on today who is

0:45.0

Creator of warp. This is terminal. We did an entire show on warp a couple weeks ago

0:51.2

And now we have Zach on just to talk about warp as well as all

0:55.4

Other kinds of interesting stuff. I know he's he's worked on quite a few things

0:59.8

Welcome Zach. Thanks so much for coming on. Yeah, thank you. Thank you both for having me

1:04.8

I'm excited to be here. You're welcome. Let's start with the give us a rundown of who you are

1:10.0

What you do where you're from all that good stuff. Okay

1:14.0

So yeah, I'm I'm Zach. I guess I would describe myself as an engineer first and foremost although I've done a bunch of different stuff

1:23.0

Probably, you know, most interesting like thing career-wise. I did prior to doing warp

1:28.8

I was the principal engineer at Google I used to be the engineering lead on the Google Docs suite

1:33.4

I built actually for a long time there I ran Google Sheets and built a lot of the current version of that

1:40.5

I

1:42.2

I guess back like originally from L.A. I now I'm living in

1:47.4

Northern New Mexico kind of randomly. I live in Tauce, which is pretty cool. Oh cool

1:53.1

Other stuff I've done so I'm a second-time startup founder. I didn't

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