ratatui VS Termion

> If someone plopped me in front of a rust codebase I'd be at the mercy of the manual for quite a long time.

This is not a representative sample of Rust. That's explicitly triggering edge cases which requires abuse of syntax you wouldn't normally see.

Check out this for something more realistic that anyone should understand https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/blob/main/examples/ca...

nice work!

can I use "cargo install --git https://github.com/aabiji/muse"?

I also recommend:

https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

https://github.com/mikaelmello/inquire

for your further development

I also have a Rust CLI music project here if you want to have a look

https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli

There are apps that are built on ratatui that support mouse already including an example in the repo[1], and crates (and some internal changes to the buffer) to support iterm/kitty/sixel based images.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/tree/main/examples#cu...

[2]: https://crates.io/crates/ratatui-image

Compared to TurboVision, Ratatui has a lot of missing things:

- Containers

- Dialog types (I'm working on this in https://github.com/joshka/tui-prompts)

- Higher order combinations of widgets (e.g. combine the scrollbar and paragraph)

- Menus

- Any event system (apps bring their own - we just handle display)

- etc.

- There's lots of things in TV that are provided as external crates (like editors, treeview, etc.)

The main thing is that Ratatui is at least right now, just the display side of things. Things to do with events or application shell aren't built-in. This somewhat stems from the immediate vs retained mode approach to the library, but this may change in the future.

The TUI is built with the awesome Ratatui [0] library (formerly tui-rs [1]). UX is certainly not my area of expertise and I would not have been able to create Trippy without this library.

[0] https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

[1] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

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.