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13227 :: Interactive TUI libraries

• emre (orginal) [2025-07-18T21:27:36+02:00] view original

  Are there any good libraries for implementing CLI tools like Claude Code, Gemini CLI? If not, what is the best implementation or library in any language? We can use it as inspiration for building one.

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• Araq (orginal) [2025-07-18T21:39:54+02:00] view original

  It's 2025. CLI apps have been outdated (AI or otherwise) for 30 years now.

  (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

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• emre (orginal) [2025-07-18T21:47:46+02:00] view original

  I am interested in using or developing such a framework. I already have an agentic coding plugin. This is for other things.

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• Abathargh (orginal) [2025-07-18T22:17:36+02:00] view original

  Were there any news on that IntelliJ thing? I am very interested in that :D

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• emre (orginal) [2025-07-18T22:37:49+02:00] view original

  No news yet; I'll try to reach them through https://platform.jetbrains.com/

  Failing that I am looking into extending the existing ones, or creating a new one if the plugin technology has changed significantly since then. But I will give JetBrains more time to respond before embarking on that.

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• ASVI (orginal) [2025-07-18T23:30:54+02:00] view original

  For nim there is only illwill. Go has some very good tui libraries: bubbletea and lipgloss. There is also a great python library: textual

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• Niminem (orginal) [2025-07-19T00:33:04+02:00] view original

  And illwill doesn't seem to be supported anymore either. It is based off of a C project though, that could be wrapped 🤔

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• Araq (orginal) [2025-07-19T00:45:12+02:00] view original

  It is based off of a C project though, that could be wrapped 🤔

  Why? Just learn how to write a TUI library, people did it in 1970 without AI support.

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• daylinmorgan (orginal) [2025-07-19T00:58:15+02:00] view original

  FWIW illwill is stable software and less than 1700 lines of pure nim.

  If it doesn't have the feature you want fork it, add it and rename it. Wouldn't be the first downstream library built off illwill. (Its license is "Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License")

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• cmc (orginal) [2025-07-19T07:52:52+02:00] view original

  I think you want illwill.

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• cheatfate (orginal) [2025-07-25T18:10:09+02:00] view original

  Microsoft released in 2025 https://github.com/microsoft/edit

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• merlin (orginal) [2026-05-09T22:40:45+02:00] view original

  I played with pi coding agent and asked it to clone tui from typescript to nim, it did the job very well and here it is: https://github.com/harrier77/nim_llamaserver_chatbot

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