thock vs brick

thock

⌨️ A modern TUI typing game featuring online racing against friends. (by rmehri01)

#Haskell #TUI #typing-practice #Websockets #Brick

brick

A declarative Unix terminal UI library written in Haskell (by jtdaugherty)

#Graphics #Vty #Haskell #Terminal #UI #TUI #Framework #Curses

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thock		brick
	Project
1	Mentions	8
82	Stars	1,487
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	30 days ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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thock

Posts with mentions or reviews of thock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning thock yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

brick

Posts with mentions or reviews of brick. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-26.

How can I move from a basic hello world/number program to something more substantial?
4 projects | /r/haskell | 26 May 2022

Brick is a great library for terminal applications. I’d say start with the examples or take a look at some tutorials that use it, then just go at it.
wordle - Wordle clone in the terminal
4 projects | /r/commandline | 2 Feb 2022

Written in Haskell with brick.
FINAL CUT alternatives - brick, notcurses, FTXUI, blessed, and ansi-styles-python
22 projects | 5 Sep 2021

A declarative Unix terminal UI programming library written in Haskell (by jtdaugherty)
Writing Programs with Ncurses
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2021

There is brick[1][2] for Haskell. Other languages may have something similar.
[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick
[2] https://github.com/jtdaugherty/brick/blob/master/docs/samtay...
If you could change one thing about Emacs what would it be?
6 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Aug 2021

In that vein, a declarative way to build (Text) UI like html+css. Or something along the lines of what Brick is for terminals.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing thock and brick you can also consider the following projects:

TuiCss - Text-based user interface CSS library

reanimate - Haskell library for building declarative animations based on SVG graphics

gloss - Painless 2D vector graphics, animations and simulations.

implicit - A math-inspired CAD program in haskell. CSG, bevels, and shells; 2D & 3D geometry; 2D gcode generation...

plot-light - A lightweight plotting library, exporting to SVG

Rasterific - A drawing engine in Haskell

vty-ui - A terminal user interface programming library similar to graphical interfaces such as GTK and QT. (DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/jtdaugherty/brick)

OpenGL - Haskell bindings to OpenGL

splines - B-Splines, other splines, and NURBS in Haskell.

network-manager-tui - Network manager tui

friday - Fast image IO and transformations.

clay - A CSS preprocessor as embedded Haskell.