brick
A declarative Unix terminal UI library written in Haskell (by jtdaugherty)
gloss
Painless 2D vector graphics, animations and simulations. (by benl23x5)
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| brick | gloss | |
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| 8 | 5 | |
| 1,514 | 388 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 11 months ago | |
| Haskell | Haskell | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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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.
brick
Posts with mentions or reviews of brick.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-26.
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How can I move from a basic hello world/number program to something more substantial?
Brick is a great library for terminal applications. I’d say start with the examples or take a look at some tutorials that use it, then just go at it.
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wordle - Wordle clone in the terminal
Written in Haskell with brick.
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FINAL CUT alternatives - brick, notcurses, FTXUI, blessed, and ansi-styles-python
22 projects | 5 Sep 2021
A declarative Unix terminal UI programming library written in Haskell (by jtdaugherty)
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Writing Programs with Ncurses
There is brick[1][2] for Haskell. Other languages may have something similar.
[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick
[2] https://github.com/jtdaugherty/brick/blob/master/docs/samtay...
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If you could change one thing about Emacs what would it be?
In that vein, a declarative way to build (Text) UI like html+css. Or something along the lines of what Brick is for terminals.
gloss
Posts with mentions or reviews of gloss.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-18.
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Are there more elegant languages for generative art and creative coding?
Haskell is the purest of the pure, and a fun language. Never done graphics with it but I see Gloss looks decent - https://github.com/benl23x5/gloss.
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Can't install WxHaskell on Windows
If you just want to draw stuff on a window, then have a look at gloss (a very simple yet useful interface to OpenGL) and sdl2 (which gives bindings to the SDL library).
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Using gloss on Windows
This question is in the gloss FAQ:
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Best beginner-friendly 2D library
Ideally, I'd like something like gloss in Haskell.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing brick and gloss you can also consider the following projects:
TuiCss - Text-based user interface CSS library
OpenGL - Haskell bindings to OpenGL
reanimate - Haskell library for building declarative animations based on SVG graphics
nanovg - NanoVG Haskell bindings
GLUT - Haskell bindings to GLUT
implicit - A math-inspired CAD program in haskell. CSG, bevels, and shells; 2D & 3D geometry; 2D gcode generation...
Rasterific - A drawing engine in Haskell
plot-light - A lightweight plotting library, exporting to SVG
pcf-font - PCF font parsing and rendering library.
Chart - A 2D charting library for haskell
rhythm-game-tutorial - Create a rhythm game with Haskell!