Looking for Kotlin Console UI libraries that work in IDE Terminal

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  • picnic

    A Kotlin DSL and Java/Kotlin builder API for constructing HTML-like tables which can be rendered to text (by JakeWharton)

  • I'm currently using Picnic and Mordant which are working nicely. I've tried out Kotter and Text-IO, but they either open a Swing terminal or require you to run a `.bat` script or something.

  • mordant

    Multiplatform text styling for Kotlin command-line applications

  • I'm currently using Picnic and Mordant which are working nicely. I've tried out Kotter and Text-IO, but they either open a Swing terminal or require you to run a `.bat` script or something.

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  • kotter

    A declarative, Kotlin-idiomatic API for writing dynamic console applications.

  • I'm currently using Picnic and Mordant which are working nicely. I've tried out Kotter and Text-IO, but they either open a Swing terminal or require you to run a `.bat` script or something.

  • Text-IO

    A library for creating interactive console applications in Java

  • I'm currently using Picnic and Mordant which are working nicely. I've tried out Kotter and Text-IO, but they either open a Swing terminal or require you to run a `.bat` script or something.

  • mosaic

    An experimental tool for building console UI in Kotlin using the Jetpack Compose compiler/runtime (by JakeWharton)

  • Not sure if this is what you're looking for but it seems pretty cool: https://github.com/JakeWharton/mosaic

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