Tachyonfx brings web-level animations to the command line..
Then Ratzilla puts it back in browsers where it belongs 🤷‍♂️

Witness this beautiful chaos: https://junkdog.github.io/exabind 🌀

🦀 Powered by Rust & @ratatui_rs ecosystem
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/junkdog/exabind

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #animations #commandline #webgl2 #terminal

And it's not like people and espechally businesses are unwilling to pay for good tools, cuz not only is HootSuite still around, but @tapbots, who made the excellent TweetBot nowadays make @ivory, an excellent #ActivityPub client with focus on #Mastodon that people are willing to pay a #subscription for!

  • And from what I could see from users who pay for it, they are not just happy, but it also looks and feels better than #TweetDeck in it's golden days...

https://tapbots.com/ivory/

Like: There's not much of a technical reason something similar to @zulip 's #TUI - based client could exit.

If people can build #bots for shite like #discord, #Telegram, etc. then why not make an actually good client ???

Anyone can recommend forgotten books about designing and programming text user interfaces (TUI) for consoles/terminals, also known as screen design back in the 80s?

Not curses or using existing libraries, but more like relying directly on ANSI/VT100 control sequences. And no, I'm not asking for a list of escape sequences :)

The kind of material I'm thinking of is something close to the 1989 "Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples" by Judith R. Brown and Steve Cunningham. But focused on TUI exclusively. The more (pseudo-)code, the better.

#ansi #vt100 #terminal #tui #console