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I know that people love their TUIs, especially people working on tiling WM in Linux, I understand them, but I still think that the best TUIs of all time were th

I know that people love their TUIs, especially people working on tiling WM in Linux, I understand them, but I still think that the best TUIs of all time were the products developed by Borland for DOS. The Turbo Vision libraries and the apps built with them are still the gold standard in my heart.

rahen 5y ago
Indeed, I have fond memories of the Turbo C IDE. I wish conio.h would have been something under Unix, free from the VT100 cruft. ncurses is lacking and awkward to use. Apparently conio.h was ported to Linux (https://github.com/nowres/conio-for-linux https://github.com/nowres/conio-for-linux) but I don't think it ever was a popular option.
password4321 5y ago
Modern Turbo Vision 2.0 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30732274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30732274
badsectoracula 5y ago
FWIW Free Vision is basically an improved Turbo Vision for Free Pascal, it recently (as in, last month) even got unicode support[0]. Though it is a bit weird in that it uses the TP5.5-style objects which aren't as powerful as the Delphi-style objects (very roughly think class in C++ vs class in Java). The (sadly only German) tutorial linked by the wiki has a bunch of screenshots in a terminal. [0] https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Free_Vision#Unicode_version https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Free_Vision#Unicode_vers...