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Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by stefanka »

elmt35 wrote: post #87
RustSupremacist wrote: post #37

People keep asking why TUIs in Rust and the answer is because the GUI situation in Rust is dreadful: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-... Rust is simply not meant for GUI-based data design but I still want Qt in Rust. That's it. Not QML or Slint. No markup at all. None of the immediate mode things. No other languages. Definitely not GTK. I'm worried it will never happen for Rust and it will…

Zed ( https://zed.dev ) is a GUI built in rust. Im not an expert in GUI building so maybe I'm wrong and they used a separate language for the GUI.

They use rust for the gpu

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui

See the discussion on a collection of elements ontop

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719004

Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by pixelready »

omarvanez wrote: post #4

I've seen lots of TUIs lately, why is that? What is the renewed interest? The only places I know of is Awesome TUIs [0] and terminaltrove [1] I can also see that Ratatui has an awesome list too [2]. [0] https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis [1] https://terminaltrove.com/ [2] https://github.com/ratatui-org/awesome-ratatui

Yeah I think it’s the software equivalent of “go back to the land” type movements. Resurgence of Linux tiling window managers, NeoVim, TUIs. Everything in web and Electron land feels busy, attention grabbing, and bloated. Heck, even VSCode’s defaults are a kind of cluttered.

I for one love the tranquility of a dark mode terminal and find it quite pleasant with a nice nerd font, a pretty color scheme, a single high resolution monitor and an ergonomic keyboard. I feel much more connected to the code or data I’m interacting with in that space. Trying to live there as much as I can lately. JiraTui has been great for preventing context switching at work.

Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by OtomotO »

ogoffart wrote: post #71
RustSupremacist wrote: post #37

People keep asking why TUIs in Rust and the answer is because the GUI situation in Rust is dreadful: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-... Rust is simply not meant for GUI-based data design but I still want Qt in Rust. That's it. Not QML or Slint. No markup at all. None of the immediate mode things. No other languages. Definitely not GTK. I'm worried it will never happen for Rust and it will…

Author of one of these "markup"-based toolkits here. I believe that Rust might not be the best language syntax to express UI. I am curious why you are so strongly against using a DSL. This topic comes up often, so I wrote a blog post explaining why I think a DSL is a good fit: https://slint.dev/blog/domain-specific-language-vs-imperativ...

I'd like to have non-imperative gui code in Rust.

Why Rust? Because I like its power and with recent developments such as subsecond the compile times are absolutely negligible.

Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by miguel_martin »

godelski wrote: post #34

I'm really waiting for the TUI web browser. That would let me live completely in the terminal. Is anyone working on this? With the speed terminals are and support for graphics through things like sixel and shaders I'd love to have a browser even if I couldn't do videos. Even if it was like viewing most pages in reader mode. I'm not sure some big companies would be happy about that though since it likely would mean yo…

Not rust, but check out nimwave: https://github.com/ansiwave/nimwave

Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by xvilka »

jasonjayr wrote: post #68
littlestymaar wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm really waiting for the TUI web browser. That would let me live completely in the terminal. You can already do this, since the 90s: Lynx[1] and w3m[2] have both existed for more than three decades at this point. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m

ELinks is the TUI browser I've used since .... forever. https://github.com/rkd77/elinks

Something like ELinks could be created by writing a simple TUI on top of the Servo engine. Then it would be able to handle even complex Web pages full of JavaScript which is a huge chunk of the modern Internet.

Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by weinzierl »

RustSupremacist wrote: post #37

People keep asking why TUIs in Rust and the answer is because the GUI situation in Rust is dreadful: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-... Rust is simply not meant for GUI-based data design but I still want Qt in Rust. That's it. Not QML or Slint. No markup at all. None of the immediate mode things. No other languages. Definitely not GTK. I'm worried it will never happen for Rust and it will…

Apart from what you said about the GUI situation in Rust (which I disagree with) I think TUI's have their niche.

I think writing a useful GUI has considerable overhead no matter which technology you use. In addition they cause other difficulties, like testability, i18n, l10n and accessability.

This is why people often resort to command line tools, rightfully so. There are cases, however, where a CLI won't cut it and I believe TUI's are a nice and lean solution that sits right between CLI and full-blown GUI and isn't going anywhere.

Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by bakugo »

sunbum wrote: post #86
RustSupremacist wrote: post #37

People keep asking why TUIs in Rust and the answer is because the GUI situation in Rust is dreadful: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-... Rust is simply not meant for GUI-based data design but I still want Qt in Rust. That's it. Not QML or Slint. No markup at all. None of the immediate mode things. No other languages. Definitely not GTK. I'm worried it will never happen for Rust and it will…

Why does that link redirect to a fart sound hosted on Wikipedia?

A quick glance at the website in question suggests that its owner may not be particularly mentally mature.

Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by bodge5000 »

dualogy wrote: post #50
laserbeam wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What is the renewed interest? We just don’t have good desktop GUI platforms anymore. Qt and GTK are massive beasts, Windows changes theirs every 4 years (and no one wants to be tied to a single platform anyway), we don’t want to deal with Electron, and writing your own GUI from scratch is hard. Terminals just got good lately and it’s way easier to make something higher quality in them than as a GUI. It’s just too h…

Godot is neat for personal tool-making where I just need a small gui with basic controls and can express the whole proggie in just GdScript (API has sufficient OS interactions for most needs), I just whip it out for those when I otherwise don't really use it anymore, just keeping it around for that. Stuff like that: https://postimg.cc/VJc0pWbB

I love Godot and think it has a great deal of potential for this kind of thing. Sure using a game loop isn't really very efficient for basic UI application, but in your case that doesnt really matter too much. That being said, I really don't like how it handles UI themeing.

Buttons are a good example. If you want to define a button theme, you have to individually define the theme for every possible state the button can be in. No inheritance, the best you can do is copy and paste them over (which means if you want to tweak one, you have to tweak them all). Compared to something like CSS, its a nightmare to theme even slightly interactive Godot GUI's

Re: Ratatui – App Showcase

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Post by thomasfl »

I want a small wrapper around slumber so it can take the same command line arguments and options as curl. I now there are several attempts at making a graphical UI for curl, but slumber has a very nice and simple cli.
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