windy VS illwill

Compare windy vs illwill and see what are their differences.

windy

Windowing library for Nim using OS native APIs. (by treeform)

illwill

A curses inspired simple cross-platform console library for Nim (by johnnovak)
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windy illwill
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4.7 7.4
5 months ago 19 days ago
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windy

Posts with mentions or reviews of windy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-11.
  • Show HN: C-ocoa, Write iOS/macOS apps in any language, with a generated C API
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023
    Interesting project, though I'd rather just use Obj-C. I guess if you wanna use it in something like JavaScript or Lua it'd make sense to have C as a bindi g layer.

    > https://gamepipeline.org/betray.html

    Interesting, I've been using a similar project for Nim lately: https://github.com/treeform/windy

    It's surprising how simple Obj-C interaction is compared to Java JNI or something. Here's the Obj-C interop for Windy:

    - macdefs: https://github.com/treeform/windy/blob/master/src/windy/plat...

  • How can I add graphics to my nim program?
    10 projects | /r/nim | 4 Jun 2023
  • How to detect and even save key presses
    2 projects | /r/nim | 18 May 2023
    I used https://github.com/treeform/windy in my text editor. It's a pure Nim library like SDL. For separate keypresses I used a state machine where every keypress advances the state and when it reaches an end state the action performed. Works pretty well ^
  • Simple Gamepad Support
    7 projects | /r/nim | 10 May 2023
    I made it because I really like pixie/boxy/windy combo, but there is no gamepad support built-in.
  • Is Fidget usable for implementation of 3D rendering?
    9 projects | /r/nim | 12 Nov 2022
    The author Fidget actually has a number of other great libraries that are part of the rendering stack. Notably, Pixie for text and shape rendering in 2D, Boxy for rendering textures to the GPU via opengl, and then Windy for an OS window context and user events, and a number of other libraries related to 3D rendering.

illwill

Posts with mentions or reviews of illwill. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.
  • How to detect and even save key presses
    2 projects | /r/nim | 18 May 2023
    smth more advanced than getch: https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6919
  • Is Nim a good language to write Linux TUI applications?
    7 projects | /r/nim | 22 Jul 2022
    For making TUIs in Nim, there's Illwill. I've played around with it a bit, and it seems pretty nice. For editing id3 tags, there's the Metatag library. I haven't tried it myself though.
  • Illwill text input
    2 projects | /r/nim | 1 Apr 2021
    Ooh, more Norwegians using Nim? I had a look in the issues of Illwill and came across this: https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill/issues/14. Seems like there is a library of widgets and he has created a simple text input one that you could possibly modify to suit your needs (or just use outright). Not sure if it will support UTF-8 characters though, and I'm on my phone at my cabin right now so can't really check.
  • Is it worth learning nim? (In my case)
    2 projects | /r/nim | 22 Feb 2021
    Check out this library, it's pretty great https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill

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tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

pixels - Toy support library for primitive graphics programming.

rich-cli - Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal

pixie - Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim.

ansiwave - A modern BBS