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andrewstuart

This looks pretty impressive:

Terminal.Gui - Terminal GUI toolkit for .NET

https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs

Written by Miguel de Icaza.

Hanselman wrote on it here:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/Its2020AndItIsTimeForTextMode...

and here:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DotnetDependsIsAGreatTextMode...

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I tried to use Gui.cs and wasn't able to. It has a lot of rough edges and I had to move on because it wasn't well fleshed out.

Other/better .NET libraries include:

https://github.com/spectresystems/spectre.console

https://github.com/TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework

https://github.com/elw00d/consoleframework

I’m curious about what other people think about this one. I tried the demo in a few terminals a couple months ago and it didn’t work well in any of them.

I used this for a couple of toy programs when I worked through last year's Advent of Code. I found that it worked well and enjoyed using it, but again these were for toy programs.

It is ok, but I would not recommend it. It got off to a great start but I ran into problems/limitations with some fairly basic stuff.

I can't recall exactly what my issue was with it however, it has been a few months.

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