Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform

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130 points·gilad··16 comments

Asciimatics is awesome! I was able to create this terminal-based presentation tool (with colors and effects) using it: https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/present

That looks really fun!

Yes it was fun making it thanks to all the asciimatics effects! I was also able to extend an internal asciimatics class to add a feature for pre-recorded code demos, which lets you _play_ code on a slide, like someone is typing it :D

How does this compare to Urwid¹, which also does this?

1. http://urwid.org/

As an app dev newb, I was searching recently for something vaguely TUI toolkit-ish, with standard pluggable elements. I know of ncurses, but it's quite low-level. I was surprised to find virtually nothing (though my search-fu may have been weak).

What resources --- libraries, documentation, books --- for TUI development would folks recommend?

There is tcell and tview for golang.

https://github.com/rivo/tview

I'm loving all these TUI libraries being posted here lately.

What else recently, if you don't mind?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318367

Here's one, with a few more in comments. There were a bunch more posted over the past ~72 hrs that I can't seem to find now

Thanks.

For emoji-capable terminals, games & simulations like that of (other-front-page-story) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24317034 seem promising with this!

Need a game demo like solitaire.

I tried to do this with nurses and nodejs many years ago, but the library did allow it to output to a telnet session, so I gave up.

gopher://worldofsolitaire.com

I'm having ncurses flashbacks hardcore right about now. Great work :)

Are there any non-Python TUIs?

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