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Re:Writing Programs with Ncurses by xavierog on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:51AM (#43492629)
> Not gonna lie, it's still not a turnkey solution that transformed my clumsy scripts into a beautiful TUI without work but it's close!

Can you elaborate on that? Are your "clumsy scripts" written in Python, shell or another language? Have you tried Textual-based tools like Trogon [1] and Moulti? [2]

[1] https://github.com/Textualize/trogon [2] https://moulti.run/

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Re:Writing Programs with Ncurses by vladsanchez on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:22AM (#43492831)
Wow, I love TUIs but never delved into researching Textualize forks/alternatives.

Thanks a lot for sharing these, especially Trogon, which I think is a clever idea with high ROI.

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Re:Writing Programs with Ncurses by cranium on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:49AM (#43493640)
Rereading myself it looks like I'm blaming Textual for being too much work to use but it's not the case! I wanted to say that powerful (T)UIs have inherent complexity coming with the territory: async, events, UI thread, reactivity, render frames, debugging... Works great, but it's UI work on top of the script.
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