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Textual is a TUI (Text User Interface) framework for Python inspired by modern web development.

Language: Python

#10 in Framework
#79 in Python
#25 in Terminal
It would be fun to build a TUI Fediverse app using Textual[0] or something

[0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual

Textual is a project I started in 2021 to build a TUI framework on top of Rich.

I did a Show HN back in August 21: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28106389

At the time, it was purely a hobby project, but a lot has happened since then. I was VC funded (nobody was more surprised than me) and since January, Textual has been my full-time gig.

This version adds a CSS renderer and more powerful layout engine, which enables some really interesting features such as live editing.

We've also added a websockets based console app for logging, which restores print style debugging when testing your TUI.

This release has documentation. Which you can find here:

https://textual.textualize.io/

Github repository:

https://github.com/Textualize/textual

Textual is still very much a work in progress, but it is way more stable now.

Textualize (the company) is currently 3 developers based in Edinburgh, Scotland. We recently hired dev no.3 and we have a fourth starting this year.

I know you're looking for something even more high-level, but here are the highest-level tools I've come across recently:

https://docs.poshtools.com/powershell-pro-tools-documentatio...

https://github.com/bczsalba/pytermgui

https://github.com/Textualize/textual - discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31143327

Auto-generation of UI was an area of active research circa the early 2000s. I don't know if anything came of said research.

I'm not the parent, but not necessarily. You can have this same exact "GUI" implemented as a TUI, using something like Bubble Tea[0], Textual[1], or by hand. You'd get a similar experience without having to go back and forth between the terminal and a browser.

[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

[1]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual

Can it be used by lisp under Ubuntu, macOS and windows 10? Quite interest in the jupyter. Or similar tool available for lisp.

Seems basically python https://github.com/Textualize/textual .