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I really wish there was a more react/swiftui-esque TUI library. One day I'll get around to fixing the fundamental flaws in my crate [0] [0]: https://docs.rs/intuitive/latest/intuitive/
The things we work on when we are bored…
Seems like especially for the last year or so, there have been a significant amount of interest in single-language oriented (instead of a single core library w/N language bindings, winking at a particular one) TUI libraries that are getting better and better (potentially because some of them were able to attract VC money). Two of them off top of my head is Textual (by textualize.io) for Python and BubbleTea (by charm…
For me all of them have Turbo Vision for Turbo Pascal 6.0 in MS-DOS, circa 1990, as baseline to beat. Or the various Clipper based TUI for business data entry, as another example. Since they are catching up with the past, they should improve upon it, not just revisit it.
I really wish there was a more react/swiftui-esque TUI library. One day I'll get around to fixing the fundamental flaws in my crate [0] [0]: https://docs.rs/intuitive/latest/intuitive/
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For me all of them have Turbo Vision for Turbo Pascal 6.0 in MS-DOS, circa 1990, as baseline to beat. Or the various Clipper based TUI for business data entry, as another example. Since they are catching up with the past, they should improve upon it, not just revisit it.
is there a good publicly available video that demonstrates what is good about these user interfaces, or alternatively, something that a non-expert user could run in dosbox to get a feeling? is the notably excellent part the user experience of the things that people built, or the library calling interface, or both? business data entry seems like something that probably requires an experienced user running the applicat…
should try ratatui for glicol-cli at some point.
you can have a look on how I use tui for music live coding:
I love TUI. Nothing beats its clean UI, focus, speed and the resulting productivity. Learn a few shortcuts and fly. We need more TUI apps.
People have thrown out decades of UX research and engineering out of the window because it isn't cool anymore. Makes me sick.
I love TUI. Nothing beats its clean UI, focus, speed and the resulting productivity. Learn a few shortcuts and fly. We need more TUI apps.
The worst part is there's absolutely nothing stopping anyone from making the same principles work in the browser. Zero. Nada. It's trivially proven by compiling apps to wasm and running in a terminal emulator but there's nothing stopping anyone from building react-terminal-like or whatever except that... I don't even know what since we've got https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web . People have thrown out decades…
Most people don’t want to browse the web with a keyboard.
Traffic to many websites primarily comes from mobile devices with touchscreens.
It has nothing to do with being “cool”. Terminal interfaces are great for those of us who spend a lot of time attached to the keyboard, but most people don’t operate like that.
ratatui is very good Rust TUI toolkit right now. But, it doesn't support mouse click events yet[0]. I hope that they implement this feature as i think it's critical to some TUI applications. [0]: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/issues/273