Ink: React for interactive CLI apps
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#2I'm unsurprised, disappointed, excited, and surprised at the same time. It's clear that the React paradigm works really well to model user interfaces, and as such it's no surprise that it can be used to build anything from desktop software to apps to websites to command line apps.
Amazing work!
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#3Saving the world, one GitHub project README banner at a time.
I don't know how I feel about writing CLIs in JS. Just seems a little bit janky to me, and I don't know why. I wonder if there's any push to have something JSXish in Go, even if it requires a pre-compiler to achieve the syntax, just for CLI apps like this. Then again, maybe I'd just rather stick with something like Nim where you can just have a first-class DSL through the macro system.
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#4a cli that has a useEffect is so cursed
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#5I get that there's a lot of people only comfortable in the js-landscape, but I still think this is a weird tool for the job. If performance is a concern there's no way node is the right thing to start, and react just seems silly to me here. Should be noted that I do a big portion of my day to day work in react - no hate on the framework.
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#7JS will eat the software world. So having better tools on par with charm in the go world would be great.
Re: Ink: React for interactive CLI apps
#8Saving the world, one GitHub project README banner at a time. I don't know how I feel about writing CLIs in JS. Just seems a little bit janky to me, and I don't know why. I wonder if there's any push to have something JSXish in Go, even if it requires a pre-compiler to achieve the syntax, just for CLI apps like this. Then again, maybe I'd just rather stick with something like Nim where you can just have a first-class…
there's a few attempts, templ[0], gomponents[1]. Not for cli apps per se but for web dev.
0: https://github.com/a-h/templ 1: https://github.com/maragudk/gomponents
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#9just because you can doesn't mean you should
Re: Ink: React for interactive CLI apps
#10I get that there's a lot of people only comfortable in the js-landscape, but I still think this is a weird tool for the job. If performance is a concern there's no way node is the right thing to start, and react just seems silly to me here. Should be noted that I do a big portion of my day to day work in react - no hate on the framework.
Node.js is not necessarily bad, but React? What makes React great is the ability to embed the DOM in your app. For CLI? Square peg, round hole.