Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

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  1. awesome-tuis

    List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces

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  3. ratzilla

    Build terminal-themed web applications with Rust and WebAssembly. Powered by Ratatui.

  4. ratatui

    A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) πŸ‘¨β€πŸ³πŸ€ https://ratatui.rs

  5. ScarletDME

    ScarletDME is a fork of the open source multi-value database OpenQM.

    I work on a bunch of Pick systems :) Love it all and we're still doing active development. (Feel free to send me an e-mail, we pick up orphaned systems)

    If anyone wants to take a look, here are some links:

    Open source version: https://github.com/geneb/ScarletDME

    The last version of true pick: https://github.com/Krowemoh/R83

  6. R83

    The Original Pick Operating System and Database

    I work on a bunch of Pick systems :) Love it all and we're still doing active development. (Feel free to send me an e-mail, we pick up orphaned systems)

    If anyone wants to take a look, here are some links:

    Open source version: https://github.com/geneb/ScarletDME

    The last version of true pick: https://github.com/Krowemoh/R83

  7. webtea

    Run bubbletea programs as webapps using gotty & ssh apps using wish

    I’m bringing charmbracelet to the web using gotty. The example is chat app that uses tailscale as the auth layer, and is exposed over ssh via charmbracelet/wish and over http via gotty. I haven’t written any docs yet; you should be able to run the example chat app on your tail net.

    Would like to add some other forms of auth, but tailscale was just so easy to provide the same auth for both ssh & http.

    https://github.com/ghthor/webtea

  8. jimtcl

    Official repository of Jim Tcl, an open-source, small footprint implementation of Tcl

  9. minc-devel

    MinC Is Not Cygwin

  10. textual

    Lean TUI application framework for Python. Build sophisticated terminal user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.

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