kotter VS kobweb

You can check out my project https://github.com/varabyte/kotter if you want to see something that makes heavy use of extension functions (even though if you're a beginner using it, you probably wouldn't notice, because Intellij IDEA is so good about auto-importing things for you).

Actually, more often than not I was talking about this library: https://github.com/varabyte/kotter. With a smattering of https://github.com/varabyte/truthish.

I'm currently using Picnic and Mordant which are working nicely. I've tried out Kotter and Text-IO, but they either open a Swing terminal or require you to run a `.bat` script or something.

I'm not too sure how to answer your question about language features in Kotter. Except maybe to point you at its extensive README and large collection of examples.

The first few examples I wrote were fairly bland, basically shaping and testing features as I created them. text, anim, blink, and input are in that category. (Plus, Kotter didn't have unit tests in the early days; instead, I just ran those programs over and over and over again).

https://github.com/varabyte/kotter - A library for writing dynamic console applications.

You can find the project for the code here. As it's just an example project and not some final production codebase, so there's only a single source file in it, main.kt. It clocks in at 462 lines of code to accomplish everything you see above, and it took about a day.

Hey OP, maybe it's overkill for you to change the implementation at this point but I wrote https://github.com/varabyte/kotter which is a Kotlin terminal library that runs your app in a virtual terminal if it can't run otherwise (e.g. in the intellij terminal). You'd probably be able to use it as a backend for inquirer if you were interested.

Gotcha! I created https://github.com/varabyte/konsole/issues/63 based on this conversation. Feel free to review it and add anything I may not have captured.

Done, added "Other" and "None of the above" options. Thanks for the feedback! Btw, were you talking about this library: https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb?

Aaaaand sourcemap config done: https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb/commit/84e17b710d92332efdb37abb887e546a7f03c73d

(For people who don't know Kobweb, you can read more at https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb, but until I update it, please replace "Compose for Web" to "Compose HTML" in your head, thanks!)

I'm actively working on https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb, which builds on top of Compose for Web and adds some extra support to make it a little easier for Android developers to get into. (You will ultimately need to learn html / css but I believe Kobweb makes that a little easier to start getting used to it).

https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb is Compose for Web using DOM rendering instead of Canvas with a Jamstack like approach. Worth to try and if it later upgrade from Kotlin/JS to Kotlin/Wasm, it could really become something big …

I'm working on https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb which is not mature, but you might want to check it out anyway?

This is indeed a very important point, and I care deeply about that.

For Compose for Web, there has been I think a lot of debate to decide if the Web rendering should be Canvas or DOM based. At least for now, it seems the official support is focusing on Canvas rendering for pixel-perfect rendering, and it already works with Koltin/Wasm, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34779746. This choice is probably driven by Kotlin current mobile app main use case.

But via community-driven project like https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb or https://github.com/mpetuska/kmdc, Compose for Web can also be a good Web citizen and perform DOM based rendering.

I'm working on an opinionated framework on top of their framework called Kobweb, but depending on your goals it may be sightly too early to use it.

This may not help but I have a working ktor server in my project. Here's my Gradle config: https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb/blob/main/backend/server/build.gradle.kts