Posted by mariuz 6 days ago
I’ve been struggling around issues in .Net Terminal.GUI v2 recently and it really made me miss the OG solid terminal UI library. Silly thing is back when this was a thing I didn’t even use it at the time.
I found this repo linked: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
> FINAL CUT is a powerful and lightweight C++ library for creating terminal-based applications with numerous text-based widgets.
Reminds me a bit of the later versions of the old Norton DOS utils.
There was always this nagging doubt - is it buggy or don't I understand how to use it? In the end, I finished my little internal tool and was happy with it. Would try again.
The docs point so strongly at using v2 instead of v1, but I just don't get the sense it's reliable, and I feel 'stuck' for a good Terminal UI library for .Net now.
Besides a nice OOP architecture, collections, iteration with callbacks, serialization, in a nice AOT compiled language with blazing compile times.
Kind of tragic what we could get in 1992, in 640 KB, in a single tasking operating systems, and how bad so many "modern" frameworks happen to be by comparison, regarding the whole development experience.
I don't know much about terminals but VTM was fun to play around. You could `ssh vtm@netxs.online` (now dead URL) and play around with dragable windows.
Or is that finally a lost to time meme? :)