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The low-level terminal stuff is still grody as hell. Years ago, HN had some blogposts from someone who was rethinking the whole stack, but I dunno what happened
by flomo 11mo ago
The low-level terminal stuff is still grody as hell. Years ago, HN had some blogposts from someone who was rethinking the whole stack, but I dunno what happened to that project. If people really like TUIs, eventually they're going to stop doing the 1980s throback stuff.
- wonger_ 11mo agoThis series? https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-emulation/ https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-e...
- speed_spread 11mo agoAlso https://github.com/withoutboats/notty https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
- crazyloglad 11mo agoIt's still around. Still doing its thing. One developer drafted a backend to ratatui for it, but he's been silent lately. I'm only marginally interested in that angle as its endgame "just" lands in TurboVision but Rust! and having to stay compatible with the feature-set of terminal emulation defeats the point.