tart VS Termion

Here's another cool one: tart, for making things like ASCII diagrams for code comments (or hell, even fully fledged terminal art)

I wanted to see how Monodraw compared to my preferred terminal art editor (https://github.com/jtdaugherty/tart), but my version of macOS which is only a couple years old is apparently not supported anymore. Tart runs in the terminal, so it works pretty much everywhere. I think it deserves more users, so if you're not on macOS, maybe check it out.

better solution is tart

Source: Building the only piece of Haskell software I use, tart.

This is an example from the Termion crate:

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.

But let's say I want to write to Termion's raw terminal: stdout().into_raw_mode().unwrap();

And I implemented it for a TermWriter struct (Note: DetectCursorPos comes from the Termion crate):

The following code stores the user input and cursor position in a raw terminal (using Termion):

That being said, termion has already handle this for us (an example).

I'm trying to recreate the Backspace functionality with Termion in raw mode. Right now, it works as expected if I'm deleting the last character. But If I move to the left with the Left arrow, then delete a character, the characters on the right of the cursor won't move to the left.

Termion crate (https://crates.io/crates/termion), and very careful observation of a rust error. Hope your friend finds it useful ;)

Found an alternative https://github.com/redox-os/termion

If you just need basic printing and limited input then I'd choose either crossterm or termion. If you want a full tui, then tui-rs is really good.