rich VS textual

rich: Enhances the command-line interface with rich text formatting.

2.Rich Rich Rich is a modern Python library designed for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. While Rich is often used for rendering formatted logs or terminal output, it also includes a TUI toolkit for building full-fledged interactive applications.

Where to check it out: https://github.com/Textualize/rich

> Personally I found Textual a little weird to use, but better than ncurses.

Out of curiosity, have you looked at it's sibling project "rich"?

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

Seems like it provides a TUI toolkit as well, and it looks a bit less weird than the approach Textual uses.

Was thinking of trying it out with a side project recently, but got pulled onto some other stuff instead so haven't yet started. Nor made the choice between them. ;)

I recently used the rich library to print tables in terminal.

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

Right! I usually use rich's print [1] for this kind of thing too, which I chose after testing a few other libraries that do pretty printing.

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1: https://github.com/Textualize/rich?tab=readme-ov-file#rich-p...

Rich

There is an open issue [1] on GitHub to make it more modular and get rid of markdown and syntax highlighting but I have no hope for rich to get more minimal.

[1]: https://github.com/Textualize/rich/issues/2277

Nice job, you should add it here: https://textual.textualize.io/#built-with-textual

If you’re a Python developer, the Textual library from Textualize.io provides a modern, feature-rich way to build stunning TUIs with ease.

Hey there. This project isn't posted publicly anywhere at the moment—it's a very idiosyncratic one-of-one sort of deal. For one thing, while I know Python a little bit, I much prefer to write Lisp. But the Textual [0] library is for Python and nothing else seems to even compete in the same space. So my "outlook-explorer" ("oe" on my command line) is actually written in Hy [1], a Lisp-y syntax swap that emits Python AST objects. And there's a couple places where I just hard-coded my own info, like the email address I'm using it with in order to pull from the right inbox in Outlook, that would need some kind of user-facing and reasonably user-friendly config options before it'd be ready for general consumption.

Have you thought about making your own bespoke one-of-one thing? I got much further than I expected to in only a couple hours. It was already basically functional in three hours, I think, and I came to the table with no prior experience using Textual.

[0] https://textual.textualize.io/

I am still figuring out the UX and specification, but for now it accomplished the main task where I want it to launch applications. After spending some time on it, and I reminded myself of Textual, where it offers an experience that resembles web front-end development. Currently, the TUI is still in development but seems to work similarly to the CLI counterpart.

3.Textual Textual Textual is a modern, async-powered TUI library built on top of Rich.Textual adds interactivity to Rich with an API inspired by modern web development.

Usando a fantástica biblioteca Textual, desenvolvi uma interface simples, mas super funcional, que roda direto no terminal. A ideia é permitir que você gerencie seus grupos de hosts de maneira prática e eficiente, sem precisar abrir aquele arquivo tedioso manualmente.

Using the fantastic Textual library, I developed a simple yet highly functional interface that runs directly in the terminal. The idea is to allow you to manage your host groups in a practical and efficient way, without having to manually open that tedious file.

Excellent article of what is going on in the terminal space, agree on the TUI section where we are seeing lots of terminal tools being built in Rust and Go and libraries such as Ratatui [1] and Bubble Tea [2] becoming a new modern alternative to ncurses for building TUIs.

Python has Textualize which is also very popular for building terminal user interfaces [3]

And we've noticed this renaissance as well of new CLI and TUI tools that we list on Terminal Trove [4].

[1] https://ratatui.rs/

[2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

[3] https://textual.textualize.io/

[4] https://terminaltrove.com/