Is there any way to host an executable/application REMOTELY that anyone with a terminal can run/interact with without any installation? Currently, I'm limited to CURLable web scripts, but those are tedious and don't have interactable menus or animations or anything.

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  • bubbletea

    A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

  • 2) Or there is a library for Go that does this... essentially it embeds a ssh server into the executable. https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea There are probably ways to do that from other languages too (eg I *think* python's twisted framework does the ssh protocol and probably java as well).

  • sshtron

    $ ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com

  • He says it's a custom ssh server here: https://github.com/zachlatta/sshtron

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  • ssh

    Easy SSH servers in Golang

  • soft-serve

    The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦

  • https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve ?

  • ncurses-rs

    A low-level ncurses wrapper for Rust

  • Which language do you use? Here is a Rust implementation of an SSH server. It handles opening the port to listen, creating the client connection, and retrieving data from the client (using getch). Then you can funnel that to an NCurses libraryand send the output back to the user

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