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A modern way to create a tui application? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by utopify_org@lemmy.ml to c/programming@lemmy.ml
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I really like tui applications, because they are sustainable, efficient, distraction free and often do one thing in which they are good in.

But I can't find a good application for every purpose I need and want to create my own tui application.

And the only thing I know of is ncurses. But because it's really old, I don't know if it's still state-of-the-art or are there better solutions?

Which language would be the best to create a sustainable tui application?

Thanks for your help :)

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[–] dressupgeekout@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call curses/ncurses "old." There are multiple implementations that are maintained to this day, and they work perfectly well.

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But are they state-of-the-art and modern? What I mean by that is really efficient, like energy-efficient, small and fast. Old software has sometimes the problem that old code can't be removed, because it is just the core of it or would take too much time. Newer software could learn from that and be much better.

Okay, writing about it I realized that modern websites eat up most resources of high-end pcs just while scrolling through. This is something I don't had in mind :D

[–] dressupgeekout@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, you're wanting to write a TUI in the first place, which (arguably) means you're not really looking for "state of the art" or "modern" -- if you see what I mean.

And if one wants to write a TUI app, then curses is the most natural and least bloated way I can think of to make that happen.

And you don't need to resort to writing your app in C -- lots (most?) programming languages have bindings to curses. I've written a curses app in Ruby, for example.

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is your Ruby application open source? I am curious for what it is :)

[–] dressupgeekout@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes they're open source. They're also not terribly interesting and I haven't updated them in many years, but maybe I should fix that!

https://github.com/dressupgeekout/pless https://github.com/dressupgeekout/pres

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Finally someone who uses #!/usr/bin/env in their scripts.