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Re: Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library

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Post by unsnap_biceps » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 4:41 AM UTC

porridgeraisin wrote: post #9

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #7

As a FYI, you removed the original author's name from your license information. Per the MIT license, you need to preserve their copyright in your fork

Genuinely curious. Do you actually open the license file on all repos posted to HN?

Not every one, but if it looks like something I might use, I do take a quick look at it and any upstream it came from. It keeps me from using something when I shouldn't and have to rip it out later.

Re: Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library

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Post by Evidlo » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 5:01 AM UTC

Think tabs widget would look better if it was more like a text area in appearance. Tab title should be connected to its content.

Re: Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library

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Post by carsenk » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 5:59 AM UTC

Evidlo wrote: post #12

Think tabs widget would look better if it was more like a text area in appearance. Tab title should be connected to its content.

Agreed, tabs widget needs work, I will try to get into the next release! Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library

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Post by smaughk » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 2:51 PM UTC

This project has made me think about more about the difference between TUI's and "command-line" (CLI) apps as categories. Traditionally CLIs were kind of run-and-exit tools, and "real" TUIs were long-running, stateful apps, but what we're creating seems to sit somewhere in between the to.

With richer terminals and libraries like this, the distinction feels more about interaction style than environment. Curious how others think about that boundary when designing tools that work in terminals.

Re: Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library

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Post by hilti » Mon, Dec 15, 2025, 10:30 PM UTC

I will definitely give it a try. Terminal UI‘s are super interesting in my opinion, because I feel like they can improve productivity. Hopefully this library can be compiled into a single binary that exposes an application icon. That’s one of the biggest hurdles I experienced with „GUI only“ users - they want something to double click on to start.