Nimwave
Languages and libraries
ui toolkit library
SHOW HN2022
195points
13comments
#295of 2,570 in 2022
Top 12%of 2022 by points
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4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.35.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Useful for small self-contained CLI tools and binaries
From 1 comment
This looks great for those small TUI’s that you think “gosh I’d like a simple CLI to automate this”! Being able to produce small binaries or self contained static ones with a few…
elcritch on HN
Interesting overlap with other Nim UI work
From 1 comment
This looks great for those small TUI’s that you think “gosh I’d like a simple CLI to automate this”! Being able to produce small binaries or self contained static ones with a few…
elcritch on HN
Objections
Accessibility of TUIs is poor on current terminals
From 1 comment
Right now not good but I have a plan for the web version. I'm going to overlay text fields, buttons and other things on top of the cells where they're being rendered. This is…
sekao on HN
Requests
A working web demo
From 1 comment
Maybe I'm blind, but since it mentions TUI for the "web", I'd expect a web example where I can see it working for myself. Is there one of those deployed somewhere? If not,…
capableweb on HN
Questions
How accessible are TUIs on different display technologies
From 1 comment
Pretty cool! How is the accessibility of such TUIs on different display tech?
jiehong on HN
Are there good tools for building interactive terminal text UIs
From 1 comment
I'm interested in building a good text UI for terminal, for a REPL language kind of system, but also showing interactive state, and being able to manipulate expressions, etc. Any…
haskellandchill on HN
Alternatives named
FTXUI
From 1 comment
Looks cool! Recently I've found this one too - https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI
malkia on HN
Emacs
From 1 comment
Emacs? I'm only partially joking
lytedev on HN