Fabulous vs Terminal.Gui.Elmish

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Fabulous		Terminal.Gui.Elmish
	Project
8	Mentions	4
1,117	Stars	218
1.3%	Growth	-
8.5	Activity	6.6
8 days ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
F#	Language	F#
Apache License 2.0	License	The Unlicense

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Fabulous

Posts with mentions or reviews of Fabulous. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-29.

Does anyone use F# for cross platform desktop app development? What framework do you use?
4 projects | /r/fsharp | 29 Jan 2023

Is there a platform that you need that's not supported by Fabulous? Most of what you need should be covered by Fabulous.MauiControls.
Anyone Using Ionic Capacitor for an F# Mobile App?
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 27 Nov 2022
can I replace c# with f# in everywhere?
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 27 Sep 2022

Fabulous is actively working on adding a MAUI target. I think this is the most promising way we'll be able to use F# with MAUI as it takes an MVU approach.
Fabulous 2.0 on Windows
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 16 Jun 2022

2.) If possible, it might be easier to wait for MAUI support in Fabulous 2.0. See https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous/issues/747 and/or https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous/issues/831.
Hot-reload in Fun.Blazor
3 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2022

But luckily I still remember Fabulous has hot-reload years ago, which is using FSharp.Compiler.PortaCode. So I start to try on that. And it turns out to integrate it is pretty simple.
Performance Improvements in .NET 6
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2021

To add to the other comment, how about Fabulous?
https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous
Fabulous 1.0 Stable Released
1 project | /r/fsharp | 1 Apr 2021

Terminal.Gui.Elmish

Posts with mentions or reviews of Terminal.Gui.Elmish. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-27.

fsharp GUI table with scrollbars
1 project | /r/fsharp | 17 Mar 2023

Lastly, for a bit of out-of-box thinking, you can do quite a bit on the terminal. There's a great C# Terminal UI library with a F# wrapper: https://github.com/DieselMeister/Terminal.Gui.Elmish
can I replace c# with f# in everywhere?
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 27 Sep 2022
New Version of Terminal.Gui.Elmish (2.0.172)
1 project | /r/fsharp | 20 Aug 2022
"redesign" of my Terminal.Gui.Elmish Project
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 15 Jun 2022

Links: https://github.com/DieselMeister/Terminal.Gui.Elmish

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Fabulous and Terminal.Gui.Elmish you can also consider the following projects:

Avalonia.FuncUI - Develop cross-plattform GUI Applications using F# and Avalonia!

Feliz - A fresh retake of the React API in Fable and a collection of high-quality components to build React applications in F#, optimized for happiness

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology

IdentityServer - The most flexible and standards-compliant OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.x framework for ASP.NET Core

Fabulous.WPF - WIP - Declarative UIs for WPF with F# and MVU, using Fabulous

Hot Chocolate - Welcome to the home of the Hot Chocolate GraphQL server for .NET, the Strawberry Shake GraphQL client for .NET and Banana Cake Pop the awesome Monaco based GraphQL IDE.

aqtinstall - aqt: Another (unofficial) Qt CLI Installer on multi-platforms

MySqlConnector - MySQL Connector for .NET

Fabulous.MauiControls - Declarative UIs for .NET MAUI Controls with F# and MVU, using Fabulous

AspNetCore.Docs - Documentation for ASP.NET Core

openiddict-core - Flexible and versatile OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect stack for .NET

trava-jdk-11-dcevm - dcevm-11 built on Travis