textual VS wtpython

If you are looking for something more flexible that just printing to a terminal, take a look at Asciimatics and textual. Both are available from Pypi.

As someone that use both Python and Rust, it's hard to motivate myself to write TUI in Rust, because with Python we have the amazing textual.

I would also[0] be interested in an argparse equivalent of this for my tool Library[1]

[0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual/discussions/228

[1] https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library

Today I released coBib 4.0, my console bibliography manager written in Python, which now uses rich and textual to provide a cohesive and modern user experience in both its CLI and TUI.

I don't think it is exactly what you're looking for, but Textual will be supporting something close to what I think you're after, soon. https://github.com/Textualize/textual

For Golang there is Bubbletea [1], Textual [2] for Python and tui-rs for Rust [3].

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

[2] https://github.com/textualize/textual

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

I guess you looked at it a while ago because the docs are quite detailed with lots of examples.

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.

Concerning your roadmap, you might wanna take some inspiration from Textual, it's a really mordern approach to TUIs. I understand that the level of abstraction is high and might be tasking to implement many of the ideas in there in C... and please fgs, don't think about doing the CSS shit.

I'm the author of Rich, a Python library for fancy formatting in the terminal. Textual is a framework I'm building around Rich for creating terminal applications. It's powered by async and borrows a number of techniques from web development.

It's still in active development, but it has reached a point where you can play with it. The most recent release adds a tree control which you can use to navigate a directory and pick files.

My hope is that a Textual UI will be at-least as easy to write as a command line interface, and projects will grow a --tui switch to launch an interactive app.

There's already an app using Textual: [wtpython](https://github.com/what-the-python/wtpython)

Textual (https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual) is the TUI and what-the-python aka wtpython (https://github.com/what-the-python/wtpython) is that specific tool.