Notcurses: Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics

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  • notcurses

    blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

    • no, Notcurses supports both Sixel and the Kitty protocol (indeed, i proposed https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3809, which drastically cut down on the bandwidth necessary for certain operations), in addition to the Linux framebuffer console (where we use a direct mmap of the framebuffer). WezTerm recently added support for the Kitty protocol, and indeed Notcurses was used to validate that work: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/986. i sat down to design the ultimate terminal graphics protocol, and it ended looking so much like Kitty's that i resolved to just advocate terminals pick up that one: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=Spriteful_TE...

    btw if you want some insight into how Sixel/Kitty are used together with glyphs, i wrote it up here: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=Theory_and_P...

    sorry for the link spam =/

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  • wezterm

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    • no, Notcurses supports both Sixel and the Kitty protocol (indeed, i proposed https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3809, which drastically cut down on the bandwidth necessary for certain operations), in addition to the Linux framebuffer console (where we use a direct mmap of the framebuffer). WezTerm recently added support for the Kitty protocol, and indeed Notcurses was used to validate that work: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/986. i sat down to design the ultimate terminal graphics protocol, and it ended looking so much like Kitty's that i resolved to just advocate terminals pick up that one: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=Spriteful_TE...

    btw if you want some insight into how Sixel/Kitty are used together with glyphs, i wrote it up here: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=Theory_and_P...

    sorry for the link spam =/

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