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Counterpoint: Build more TUIs in Rust using Ratatui: https://ratatui.rs/

Why? Because just look at the examples on that page.



Or for those coding in Python there's Textual: https://textual.textualize.io/

Or for Go coders there's BubbleTea: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

Why? Because TUI!


> Textual

Please, don't. One of the main benefits of TUI is being able to freely copy text, I hate opening Textual application and being dropped into this canvas like state.


A workaround is to use shift + mouse drag to enter terminal native selection mode. (Works in most terminals I believe)


That's fine until what you need to copy gets extra line-breaks inserted


Heh, I have one in C23 with Ruby, Python, Go, and JS bindings...may have gone overboard. Not going to publish though until I have dogfooded it enough though :P


Yeah Textual, is pretty good. I have been building a CYOA(Choose-your-own-adventure) game using it


Looked and see all the same awfulness expected of a textual interfaces where drawing a vertical line is not trivial, so many have gaps instead because they don't know they need a different character Or where the gaps between elements is huge because your min width is bounded by a char. Etc.


Look at the dependencies in the cargo.toml file.


I don't really understand this comment. Anything in particular I should be looking for?


You had me at the name. Love that movie.


IMHO those screenshots look far from enticing.

I guess it’s a matter of taste ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Visual things often are.

I love the visual style. It's especially interesting to set the colour scheme to the orange/yellow glow of reaaaly old school terminals.




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