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It's sad to see textualize.io close the doors, but textual is still alive and maintained as a n open source project. I tried to use it very early, and struggled, this was before docs and tutorials really existed, before a lot of the widgets and components existed. Then as we all do I got busy and moved on to other things in life and did not have the capacity to build TUIs.
I like tuis #
I like tuis, I like staying in the terminal. I use
lf daily to move files around when I
want something more than mv
and cp
. I use
k9s hourly to monitor and manage my
kubernetes cluster.
Are they worth the effort?? #
As awesome as tui's are, they are more effort to build, and less automatable. I feel like the first stage into automation of a project really needs to be a good cli, and this is often good enough for the project and I move on.
m9a (em - nine - ah) #
inspired by k9s
Like I said I really like k9s and use it all the time, It really makes running kubectl commands a breeze and much less verbose. I don't know how useful this will be, but as a learning exercise I am working on a k9s experience for my blog generator markata.
Learning #
So far this is just for learning and not quite the most useful thing, I am not sure if there is a way to do it, but I am interested in the idea of some sort of framework (maybe just widgets) that can more easily turn pydantic objects into this kind of tui. I don't quite know how it would work, or if it could work, for now just exploring the idea, and I think I hit a fairly crude clone of k9s so far.