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Posted by mipselaer 17 hours ago

TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool(tui.studio)
560 points | 273 commentspage 6
jbverschoor 9 hours ago|
Guess who's back, back again?

VB's back, tell a friend.

sandos 13 hours ago||
I would be REALLY REALLY impressed if it manages to do this without bugs. Just using pythons textual can be very complex, belive it or not. Maaging not only to that but other frameworks too sounds insanely complex. I have a strong feeling this is vibecoded from the commit history?`

Ah yes, it says clearly that on the github page. Still, if its works, I am then impressed by the LLM.

Edit: It does, in fact, NOT work for code export. Level of impressiveness massively dropped.

shimman 10 hours ago|
Yeah, the website has many bugs too. Literally can't click on 50% of the "clickable" stuff. Not impressed by vibe coded nonsense. The comments here are weird, people are discussing the "idea" rather than the broken implementation.

Probably a bad omen of things to come for the internet.

_pdp_ 14 hours ago||
Am I the only one who thinks the recent TUI explosion is absolutely not necessary?

I mean yes, code editor are great for this but a lot of the TUIs I see are so slow it begs the question why they exist to begin. CLIs are supposed to be remixable and scriptable.

I think a better architecture would be to generally keep CLIs work like CLIs and have separate processes that add terminal rendering functionalities for those that need / want it but in general it is an anti-pattern to start from this as default.

vendiddy 12 hours ago||
I feel like they are a workaround to GUIs being slow and bloated Electron apps.

But I wish we'd just make fast GUIs instead of giving up and building TUIs instead.

drob518 13 hours ago|||
Depends highly on the specific application. Take a simple example of looking at process usage. You can use ps from the command line to get all sorts of info about a process. But there’s no substitute for top to show you an updating list of top cpu consumers, which ps just can’t do.
javier123454321 13 hours ago|||
That's roughly aligned with my thinking. Make it a CLI. And if there's a lot of configuration that you can pass to it, have an option for rendering those options as a TUI.
mikkupikku 14 hours ago||
Of course it's not necessary, it's a fashion. Choosing to make a TUI instead of a GUI is a fashion statement, it signals aesthetic alignment with nerdy shit and says the program isn't meant for common proles. There's pretty much nothing a TUI can do that a GUI can't do, while the opposite is very much not the case.
frou_dh 11 hours ago||
See also all the programmer blogs that feel the need to use a monospaced font for prose, to signal that they're a programmer.
lagrange77 14 hours ago||
The background ASCII animation is so cool! Is it an actual simulation?
ksherlock 13 hours ago|
Use the source Luke! It's an "ASCII plasma background" rendered into a canvas element.
__mharrison__ 12 hours ago||
The irony that a TUI studio is not written as a TUI...
varjag 14 hours ago||
Turbo Vision strikes back
JSR_FDED 14 hours ago|
One can only dream
docmars 5 hours ago||
This is amazing! Just think how incredible this would have been to have in the 80's and 90's in some similar format.
Venkymatam 11 hours ago||
this is a cool idea lol but is a pretty nonsensical explanation of what you can even do with it
ramon156 12 hours ago||
No ratatui?!
aaronblohowiak 11 hours ago|
So this is a TUI WYSIWYG GUI ?
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