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by heldergg 2104 days ago
Turbo Vision, this is TUI perfection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision

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I recently added Unicode support into Turbo Vision: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
Wow! What an awesome and pleasant surprise! I have such fond memories of using Borland IDEs from that era and some of the applications built with TV. Thank you for making it modernized and available on Linux!
Ah, I remember this. This is friendly UI
Indeed it was! This library produced easily discoverable UIs, it worked just as well with the keyboard or the mouse. The default layout was very pleasant.

From the developer's perspective, it was a joy to work with. I made some projects using pascal and C++ if I remember correctly.