nchat VS tcell

Compare nchat vs tcell and see what are their differences.

nchat

Terminal-based Telegram / WhatsApp client for Linux and macOS (by d99kris)

tcell

Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others. (by gdamore)
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nchat tcell
5 18
455 4,402
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9.1 8.7
6 days ago 4 days ago
C++ Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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nchat

Posts with mentions or reviews of nchat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.
  • Neonmodem: TUI for Lobsters, HN, etc.
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
    WeeChat[0] with Bitlbee[1] supports a metric assload of services, albeit by pretending they're IRC (which does work - I spent years in weechat/irssi with bitlbee talking to various people on disparate services.)

    Or if you're just after Telegram/WhatsApp, nchat[2] is ok (I can vouch for the Telegram half only.)

    [0] https://weechat.org

    [1] https://wiki.bitlbee.org

    [2] https://github.com/d99kris/nchat

  • Any TUI Messages clients?
    3 projects | /r/osx | 16 Feb 2023
    nchat for Telegram and WhatsApp: https://github.com/d99kris/nchat
  • WhatsApp on macOS sucks
    5 projects | /r/MacOS | 2 Jul 2022
    nchat
  • GNU Emacs Telegram Client
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2022
    The fact that Telegram provides an API enabling third-party clients (like this one) is the main thing that sets it apart from the other big mobile chat platforms (WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal) for me.

    It's really nice to have access to a wide variety of client softwares, and the ability to build ones own (shameless plug - I built https://github.com/d99kris/nchat which is a simple TUI client).

  • FINAL CUT alternatives - brick, notcurses, FTXUI, blessed, and ansi-styles-python
    22 projects | 5 Sep 2021
    Terminal-based chat client for Linux and macOS with support for Telegram.

tcell

Posts with mentions or reviews of tcell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
  • go playground code doesn't work locally?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 2 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/gdamore/tcell s, err := tcell.NewScreen() // Clear screen s.Clear()
  • Help to find a terminal library
    3 projects | /r/golang | 12 Mar 2023
    I have used https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/ for github.com/raff/gio-games/arrows (look at game_term.go that is the terminal version, alternative to the gio/graphical version)
  • Problem Installing Go Modules
    1 project | /r/golang | 5 Feb 2023
    Hi im using linux (distro: Fedora 37) and I dont i have problems with installing go modules. When i run the commands in terminal (bash) "go install github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2" it gives me this error: "go: 'go install' requires a version when current directory is not in a module Try 'go install github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@latest' to install the latest version" So when I run the command: "go install github.com/gdamore/tcell/vs@latest" I get this error: "package github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 is not a main package". Please someone help.
  • How to Create Console Screen Buffer in go?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 20 Jan 2023
    Hi guys, I have fixed the problem. The problem was as stated: remove terminal behavior like when a key is pressed and held it does not work as needed. For example if I want to move character when user press key the player (character) will move one step then stops then move fast like text curser. The solution is not by using [Console Screen Buffer] the Tcell is enough, But the problem is caused by the way the input is read from the user as u/pekim says in comments it is a "Typical behaviour in most environments (not just Windows)". So to fix this you need to use windows API (w32) and read key using GetAsyncKeyState() that will fix the problem.
  • Need a TUI with multiline text input or good interactive CLI-interface style support
    6 projects | /r/golang | 21 Jul 2022
    There's quite a variety of tui libraries in Go with all kinds of different tradeoffs. Likely you won't find one that does just exactly what you want (paren matching support seems particularly unlikely out of the box, dunno if you'll find something you can plug in). tview and the underlying, lower-level tcell may be useful. I see termbox mentioned a lot here though that looks more like a toolbox for building such things than a solution itself.
  • Which Go frameworks are recommended to assist with the creation of console based UI and GUI?
    5 projects | /r/golang | 21 May 2022
    There's also tcell
  • TUIs
    33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2022
    How about some libraries that help with building TUIs?

    I'll start with https://github.com/gdamore/tcell

  • Monotty Desktopio - Text-based desktop environment inside your terminal
    12 projects | /r/commandline | 7 Feb 2022
    (notcurses is the first in C, and currently best globally. The first in Rust might be tui-rs. The first in Go might be tcell.)
  • tcell VS FINAL CUT - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 1 Jan 2022
  • Snake game implementation.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 20 Oct 2021
    a Snake Game implication in Go using 2d array. https://github.com/twiny/snaky it runs on terminal window using github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2/termbox to render Snake movement.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nchat and tcell you can also consider the following projects:

Ferdium - Ferdium is a desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application.

bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

contour - Modern C++ Terminal Emulator

termbox-go - Pure Go termbox implementation

S-Lang - The S-Lang programming library is a software library for Unix, Windows, VMS, OS/2, and Mac OS X. It provides routines for embedding an interpreter for the S-Lang scripting language, and components to facilitate the creation of text-based applications.[3] The latter class of functions include routines for constructing and manipulating keymaps, an interactive line-editing facility, and both low- and high-level screen/terminal management functions. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

TermOx - C++17 Terminal User Interface(TUI) Library.

termui - Golang terminal dashboard

notty - Declarative terminal graphics for OCaml

gocui - Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.

FTXUI - Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang

Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs - Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets — written in Golang