Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by arsham » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 11:26 AM UTC

Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
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Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by jimpudar » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 4:39 PM UTC

Nice work! Would be good to add a CLI option for specifying a font.

Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by ktpsns » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 5:52 PM UTC

We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.

Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by orf » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

ktpsns wrote: post #3

We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.

Cool? Meaningless though

Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by andmarios » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 6:35 PM UTC

ktpsns wrote: post #3

We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.

Also on any Linux distribution you will find figlet available from the default repositories. :)

http://www.figlet.org/

Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by teh_klev » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 6:45 PM UTC

ktpsns wrote: post #3

We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.

Many of the .flf files in https://github.com/arsham/figurine/tree/master/bin mention figlet etc in their comments.

Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by web007 » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 6:46 PM UTC

ktpsns wrote: post #3

We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.

figlet + lolcat = figurine

I'm interested in the rainbow library (which does reference figlet https://github.com/arsham/rainbow/blob/master/README.md#see-...), but only to see if it's any faster than the painfully slow Ruby implementation of lolcat.

Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by Gaelan » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

Occasionally this outputs F'DK'M instead of GAELAN for me. Maybe an issue with some of the fonts?

Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by arsham » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 8:44 PM UTC

jimpudar wrote: post #2

Nice work! Would be good to add a CLI option for specifying a font.

Thanks! Please create an issue and specify your requirements and I will add them.

Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)

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Post by arsham » Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 8:48 PM UTC

web007 wrote: post #7

ktpsns wrote: post #3

We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.

figlet + lolcat = figurine I'm interested in the rainbow library (which does reference figlet https://github.com/arsham/rainbow/blob/master/README.md#see-... ), but only to see if it's any faster than the painfully slow Ruby implementation of lolcat.

Well, the name came out of nowhere (sorry!). As for comparison with ruby, all I can say is figurine is a single binary, whereas ruby's lolcat requires ruby's VM.

There are a couple of benchmarks and you can run them with: $ go test -bench=.