crossterm VS gitui

I have this feeling with all rust apps using crossterm crate as their backend like GitUI for example

Made a small toy using crossterm that simulates the falling sand using the rules laid out by day 14. Bit late to the party but was pretty fun. The moment I saw the prompt I was fully intent on making some sort of visualization for this after getting the solution.

There are plenty of terminal UI libraries that are actually nice to work with. For Python, there's Textual and PyTermGUI. For Rust, there's ratatui and Cursive (or, if you want something a bit lower level, crosster or termion). For Go, there's bubbletea.

Switching the backend of Cursive to crossterm removed dependence on ncurses

Just wondering if anyone has any insight into the current development and maintenance of termion? It currently has 67 issues and 24 merge requests and no code activity has happened since Sep 27 2021, so nothing in over a year. I am of course grateful for the existing project, but just somewhat concerned that it ends up being abandoned or forgotten seeing as it is one of the premiere tui libraries written purely in Rust (other being crossterm).

I might make a gui frontend in the future, but for now i'll focus on the terminal. The terminal doesn't mean it doesnt support mac or windows though, they have terminals too! And the library used for accepting key-input is crossterm which supports windows!

I used crossterm. Really love the simplicity of the API, definitely fit my purposes well.

For the terminal part you could use https://crates.io/crates/crossterm

Mazter uses crossterm for terminal events and rendering. It's an excellent cross-platform library: https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm

This week I discovered tildegit. I thought it was such a cool concept that I decided to open a repo for hosting this project's source code (https://tildegit.org/mscott9437/cataclysm_engine). I tried to explain it the best I could in the README, but admittedly it's going to be a little bit confusing right now, since I'm still working out all the low-level functionalities. Basically this project is going to be in Rust, but right now the only source code on the repo is in C. The reasoning is that I'm writing a basic model for the engine in C, which will be directly ported to Rust. Once I have the model worked out to my satisfaction, I plan to switch the main development over to Rust exclusively. By leveraging the Crossterm library (https://crates.io/crates/crossterm) , I will be able to add features which are not practical in pure C, such as cross-platform support as well as asynchronous event streaming. It might sound like a lot of extra unnecessary work, but I strongly feel that this strategy will pay off in the long run, since I will have a better foundation to build on.

I was missing interactive rebase, as it is missing from libgit2

https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/issues/32

I have this feeling with all rust apps using crossterm crate as their backend like GitUI for example

The terminal applications I used are GitUi and LazyGit. Both are very good and have almost all what you need.

Give gitui a try. It’s a text|terminal user interface (tui) for git. I think that’s what you are looking for. Also, search GitHub for “git tui” and I’m sure you will find a bunch of other options.

For me I love how fast the terminals are, and using that with TUI produces super fast keyboard-driven apps and can be more intuitive than CLI tools only, for example I've found using LazyGit or GitUi more comfortable than just the git command, and sure I don't need to talk about how powerful Vim, NeoVim and Emacs are.

Then if you want to see how the Tui apps are built together then you can pick an apps built upon these crate to see how the components are built together. I found the source code in GitUi very clear and inspiring. And sure you can see how this app is built as well :)

I personally recommend GitUI, it's a TUI app but much better than a GUI imo.