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jschlattertoday at 2:15 AM2 repliesview on HN

They started with Ink but have since switched to their own renderer:

> We originally built Claude Code on Ink, a React renderer for the terminal. [...] Over the past few months, we've rewritten our rendering system from scratch (while still using React).

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/769#issueco...


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cududatoday at 2:17 AM

Thanks for sharing. Very … interesting. Just trying to understand why the heck would React be the best tool here?

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lifetimerubyisttoday at 2:44 AM

React?!

Good grief get me off this sloppy ride.