Is Nim a good language to write Linux TUI applications?

• tui-rs

  68 10,829 4.7 Rust

  Discontinued Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

The upside of rust is that there is a nice library that works with a lot of metadata formats and tui library.

• ansiwave

  15 378 4.0 Nim

  A modern BBS

  

Well i think nim is ideal for TUI programs. The performance of rust with the ergonomics of go is a pretty nice combination. I built ansiwave which is a fairly complex TUI program in nim, and i extracted the TUI stuff into a separate library, nimwave. Whether it is mature enough is a bit subjective but it's mature enough to build ansiwave :P If you try it i'm open to feedback.

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• nimwave

  8 494 4.0 Nim

  TUIs for the terminal, desktop, and web

  

Well i think nim is ideal for TUI programs. The performance of rust with the ergonomics of go is a pretty nice combination. I built ansiwave which is a fairly complex TUI program in nim, and i extracted the TUI stuff into a separate library, nimwave. Whether it is mature enough is a bit subjective but it's mature enough to build ansiwave :P If you try it i'm open to feedback.

• illwill

  5 375 7.4 Nim

  A curses inspired simple cross-platform console library for Nim

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.

• metatag

  1 14 3.2 Nim

  A metadata reading & writing library for Nim. Supports id3v2.3.0, flac & possibly more.

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.

• rich-cli

  29 2,938 0.0 Python

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

  

If you change your mind about Python there's textual+rich, https://www.textualize.io/.

• picard

  238 3,551 9.8 Python

  A cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database. Picard organizes your music collection by updating your tags, renaming your files, and sorting them into a folder structure, exactly the way you want it.

  

are you writing it for fun or because you want to solve a particular problem? If it's the former, godspeed, if the latter, check out Picard, it may be able to do what you need to get done.

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