On another note, I would love to see higher level frameworks wrapping blessed. Blessed gives you the API and some fancy widgets/elements: it's the (nicer) DOM

On another note, I would love to see higher level frameworks wrapping blessed. Blessed gives you the API and some fancy widgets/elements: it's the (nicer) DOM for the terminal. This guy already started an XML-based markup language for blessed: https://github.com/kevinhikaruevans/blessedoo https://github.com/kevinhikaruevans/blessedoo. That's the kind of stuff I love to see as the author of blessed. If you could take something like JSDOM (combined with a CSSOM node module), and make blessed the backend rendering engine, you could practically just use React, Angular, or any of the high level web frameworks. Or you could just make a kickass terminal web browser with just the DOM/CSSOM wrapper. Blessed has everything you need to make a terminal a browser-like environment: overlay images, ansi images, element transparency, every mouse protocol still in use, hover effects, forms, dynamic layout positioning, etc. I really want to see someone do this. If not, I might have to do it some day. Also, the first person to create a terminal-based MMORPG gets a satoshi.