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Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library

47 points by carsenk

by biomcgary

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The Readme for a UI library benefits enormously from screenshots, even terminal based UIs.

by hilti

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I will definitely give it a try. Terminal UI‘s are super interesting in my opinion, because I feel like they can improve productivity. Hopefully this library can be compiled into a single binary that exposes an application icon. That’s one of the biggest hurdles I experienced with „GUI only“ users - they want something to double click on to start.

by unsnap_biceps

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As a FYI, you removed the original author's name from your license information. Per the MIT license, you need to preserve their copyright in your fork

by smaughk

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This project has made me think about more about the difference between TUI's and "command-line" (CLI) apps as categories. Traditionally CLIs were kind of run-and-exit tools, and "real" TUIs were long-running, stateful apps, but what we're creating seems to sit somewhere in between the to.
With richer terminals and libraries like this, the distinction feels more about interaction style than environment. Curious how others think about that boundary when designing tools that work in terminals.

by Evidlo

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Think tabs widget would look better if it was more like a text area in appearance. Tab title should be connected to its content.

by tigranbs

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It is interesting that suddenly the Terminal UI became popular. I am super happy to see this kind of thing pop up.