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Re: Termui – Go terminal dashboard

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All these Go applications/talks/whatever coming out of the woodwork make me giggle. YOU CAN'T DO AWESOME STUFF WITHOUT GENERICS, OK?

Yeah, it's like how all those people cutting trees with a manual saw proved that you don't need a power saw!

Generics are like a power saw? ASM doesn't have generics.

Re: Termui – Go terminal dashboard

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HN discussion about the Node.JS implementation (blessed-contrib) a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8888089

If we want to trace back the lineage completely, here's the discussion on blessed (https://github.com/chjj/blessed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058639

I guess it wasn't very popular in spite of the projects it influenced. :)

Although, blessed-contrib does add some pretty cool widgets.

Re: Termui – Go terminal dashboard

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All these Go applications/talks/whatever coming out of the woodwork make me giggle. YOU CAN'T DO AWESOME STUFF WITHOUT GENERICS, OK?

I don't think anybody's said anything like that. You can build awesome software projects using almost any toolset. C, or C++, or Ruby, or Go, or Java, or… The question is – is the trade-off worth it? Lack of generics makes things more awkward – but it's also simpler, so maybe it's a net gain? Some people think it is, and some people think it's not. But it's a useful conversation to have.

Considering how many cool projects are being written in Go lately, it seems that a lot of people either don't mind the lack of generics or like the rest of Go enough to power through. I'm personally in the latter camp, though I can't say I've written anything remotely as cool as this.

Re: Termui – Go terminal dashboard

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post #48

HN discussion about the Node.JS implementation (blessed-contrib) a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8888089

If we want to trace back the lineage completely, here's the discussion on blessed ( https://github.com/chjj/blessed ): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058639 I guess it wasn't very popular in spite of the projects it influenced. :) Although, blessed-contrib does add some pretty cool widgets.

blessed is an amazing engineering work! I hoped the name blessed-contrib to show the project roots.

termui is built upon termbox-go in a similar way that blessed-contrib builds on blessed, which is why I found them similar.

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