this is the most modern GUI (in a console or not) framework you'll find for Python right now.
- CSS, why?! It does not really work like CSS when it comes to positioning things, overlapping and so on. Compared to previous versions where these properties were in a dict or sent in to the component, they are now in either big string blocks or in separate files, removing syntax highlighting and/or locality.
- Cannot easily use debugging such as PDB because it hijacks Traceback and uses async. Maybe fine if you rely on other debugging tools.
- It lacks simple off-the-shelf components such as menu bars, so I built my own, but run into annoying artifacts as mentioned before.
Rich, the underlying rendering library is good, and simple enough. I ditched Textual for prompt_toolkit, and can still use Rich to render things in pt.