[tambourine_man]

The future of the command line is something along the lines of what these guys are doing:

https://www.textualize.io

[ablob]

Isn't this still confined to what a terminal gives you right now (as it is using current terminal specifications)? While certainly colorful and fancy, it doesn't really introduce new concepts, does it?

I mean, for starters:

   -> unix introduced text as a universal interface
   -> bash made reusing stuff a lot easier via file descriptors, etc. (think: <(input to regard as file))
   -> powershell allowed for object oriented scripting
   -> some older systems (name forgotten/unknown) even had interactivity in the cli: click on parts of command-output and stuff happens, even after other commands have been run already

[tambourine_man]

Sure, the terminal primitives are fixed unless we expand the standard.

But what they are doing is way beyond colorful only. It’s smooth scrolling of text boxes within text boxes. That alone is bonkers.

But they also have an easy API for smart/partial redrawing, sensible UI components, I mean, their progress bars are exquisite. It’s truly impressive.

[dragonelite]

Tui example looks really nice would be cool if someone made something like that as a markdown previewer without having to jerryrig it to a browser.