Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

Not the parent, but I find it wonderful. The spring library is one I love.

There’s some charm to spending the time to challenge preconceived notions of CLI output. I find something very beautiful about picking up a new tool and being surprised by the output in a way that piques your curiosity or brings a smile.

It’s the greatest form of learning to be able to just play. Should you be implementing these into your enterprise internal tool to monitor your platforms support tooling? Probably not.

I looked at their UI library. How did we get to a place where “The elm architecture pairs nicely with Go”.

What I don't understand is with the recent adaptation of GPU-accelerated terminals, why not create something that actually renders Markdown like you'd expect in the browser, but in the terminal? It would have to be significantly faster than the bloat of a typical browser, but just with limited features... like no JS engine.

I love CLI tools, and I think we're just scratching the surface of what's possible. It's really neat to dig into the UI components that charm has available.

It feels as though many GUI-based web / chromium applications are collapsing under their own weight. They're slow and discoverability is bad. Maybe worst of all they're always distracting me with a popup / modal / alert that's unrelated to my current task.

A lot of these issues go away in a CLI, and I think there's a back-to-basics movement forming that could extend beyond the HN crowd.

I wonder if the vt-100 terminal emulator will be used to surf the next "web"... Instead of web sites, the nerds will run their own ssh servers, then you can run programs and read files on their "web site" (ssh shell). This has many advantages over the current web, for example built in user management - you can allow anyone access by their public ssh key. Now you say what about graphics ? Text only might be a break from the ad ridden web today, but you could also ssh -X to run GUI apps.