What does HackerNews think of blessed?
A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.
Language:
JavaScript
Textualize (Python) and BubbleTea (GoLang) are really great options for building TUIs. But it seems that the defacto option in the nodejs space has not been updated since 2016 [1].
Are there any TS based TUI libraries that are mature and actively developed?
My backburner project of providing Clojure bindings to React running in GraalJS has gotten to the point where it technically works, but I'm not sure if the marshalling overhead is worth it. It's been fun pairing it to a terminal emulator and writing a blessed-like[1] using Clojure though.
[1] blessed - https://github.com/chjj/blessed
Fun fact - xterm.js was originally created by chjj who also wrote the code for Handshake DNS among other things.
My favorite is blessed [1].
He’s definitely a super programmer. Thank you for all your contributions to this world @chjj!
I commented on this in another HN discussion thread [1] on Blessed [2]. You might want to look at what Vermont Views did [3] to avoid reinventing the wheel of what to implement. I'm sure if you put the call out for it, someone, somewhere, reading on HN, will be able to post up the documentation if you want a detailed look, or send you the obfuscated source code (which these days could probably be re-constituted with modern re-factoring editors). I tried emailing and hard copy mail contacting them a few years back to buy the rights so I could turn around to open source it as I anticipated a resurgence of interest in TUI's because the browser-based latency issue is simply not improving fast enough, but never got a response, so as far as I can tell, they went abandonware (their corporate form is inactive [4], but someone is updating their office address as recently as a couple years ago, so I might give a shot at contacting them again).
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405186
[2] https://github.com/chjj/blessed
[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20091011010412/http://www.vtsoft....