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You can't go wrong with Ncurses. Ancient, bindings to literally every language, stable and works everywhere including the kitchen sink. The terminal is not meant to be existing. You are emulating 80 year old technology at the base of it.
My favorite is the python-based Urwid library at http://www.urwid.org . It was a little hard for me to wrap my head around it at first, but once you get it, you can write TUI applications without a lot of code. Easy to install, many examples to work from.
Check out the Interactive Fiction competition, it's text-based video games. https://ifcomp.org/comp/2019 Two libraries for writing these games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TADS
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So, lynx? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
No, I meant a text mode browser that does not use HTML. Lynx, and all the existing text mode browsers are intended to render HTML as text. This would be a browser that targets only text mode user interfaces. So pages would need to be written specifically to be rendered in such an environment. Why? Because text mode browsers are really trying to do the impossible - to render modern web pages as text is essentially not…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
There was a sliver of time in the 1990s, in academic settings, where it was very easy to get onto an Internet-connected Unix computer, but before HTML existed. There were many plain text Internet applications.
Blessings, curses-like Python library:
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/08/blessings-curses-like-py...
https://github.com/chjj/blessed is a curses-like library with a high level terminal interface API for node.js. It also has impressive demos.
Now that is a clever project name
Turbo Vision, this is TUI perfection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
Turbo Vision, this is TUI perfection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
Ah, I remember this. This is friendly UI
From the developer's perspective, it was a joy to work with. I made some projects using pascal and C++ if I remember correctly.
You can't go wrong with Ncurses. Ancient, bindings to literally every language, stable and works everywhere including the kitchen sink. The terminal is not meant to be existing. You are emulating 80 year old technology at the base of it.
http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html
Here's how it starts:
"so here's a short tutorial on ansi escape codes and terminal control, because you philistines won't stop using ncurses and oh my god WHY ARE WE STILL USING NCURSES IT IS THE TWENTY FIRST FUCKING CENTURY"
My favorite is the python-based Urwid library at http://www.urwid.org . It was a little hard for me to wrap my head around it at first, but once you get it, you can write TUI applications without a lot of code. Easy to install, many examples to work from.
How popular is it in the Python space? I loved the large text widget and would love to contribute with a font using the Teletext 2x3 mosaics that got into Unicode 13 (which are fully supported in VTE)
Also check out the list of applications built with Urwid [2]. Probably the two most popular applications that use Urwid are bpython [3] (an alternative Python REPL that is really nice), and PUDB [4] (a nice Python debugger that is reminiscent of Borland's Turbo Pascal). I use bpython all the time, it's a lifesaver, and I occasionally fire up PUDB when I am really stuck on something.
I've used Urwid in a couple of projects (most notably Zeitzono [5]), it's nice in that it's fairly high level and gives you a number of helpful widgets to work with. Starting with it from scratch is a little daunting, so you should look at existing projects to see how they are using the library. Also, I believe Urwid development has slowed down somewhat in the last few years (although other folks maybe stepping up to take over from the original author, I haven't follow up on this in a while).
Also definitely take a look at Python Prompt Toolkit [6]. They started off as library for writing line-oriented command interpreters, but now can also be used for building full screen applications. I've not yet built an application using it, but it looks really good and is actively developed. ptpython [7] is a REPL built using this library and gives bpython a run for its money.
[1] https://pypistats.org/packages/urwid
[2] https://github.com/urwid/urwid/wiki/Application-list
[3] https://bpython-interpreter.org/
[4] https://github.com/inducer/pudb