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TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

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varjagtoday at 1:19 PM

Turbo Vision strikes back

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NoGravitastoday at 4:38 PM

Missing ncurses support.

aaronblohowiaktoday at 3:59 PM

So this is a TUI WYSIWYG GUI ?

monkaijutoday at 3:58 PM

I wish HN had flairs (tags) like Reddit and mandated a few for AI-related work (AI-Assisted, AI-meta, AI-vibecoding) or something so these could be filtered out

aethorntoday at 12:09 PM

The website UI is unreal, I loved the idea

raincoletoday at 1:19 PM

When your TUI is so complex that you need a GUI to design it, perhaps you shouldn't use TUI in the first place.

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gaigalastoday at 5:07 PM

Seems nice.

I launched https://github.com/alganet/tuish yesterday (pure shell backend).

Exporting to pure shell could be a killer feature, especially for smaller and ad-hoc apps (no dependencies, no compilation, etc).

jappgartoday at 1:22 PM

Why did they make a website?

worthless-trashtoday at 1:03 PM

The corners of the boxes appear in the wrong place in the cell.

I don't think there is utf8 characters that allow for drawing on the outside of the cell, (happy to be wrong)

┌ (U+250C), ┐ (U+2510), └ (U+2514), ┘ (U+2518) <-- these 4 draw in the middle of the cell.

「 (U+FF62), ⌟, (U+231F), <-- these are two that cover part of the outside, but not the other corners.

「┐└」

Can anyone tells me how to get those 'corner of cell' characters, including uprights and horizontals ?

oefrhatoday at 4:23 PM

I really hate these pointlessly dynamic website backgrounds that make mobile devices hot to touch. Unfortunately vibe-coded websites love these.

ramon156today at 3:27 PM

No ratatui?!

MPSimmonstoday at 1:22 PM

This is like QTdesigner but for the terminal. Huh.

grilo16today at 11:20 AM

Noice figma for terminals! Dude super cool idea, great job =D

igtztorrerotoday at 1:47 PM

I want something like that, but for Bootstrap,Tailwind or Quasar

moron4hiretoday at 1:43 PM

Anyone notice the computer image at the top of the page doesn't have the right number of keys?

elxrtoday at 1:37 PM

The fact that this isn't a TUI itself is a bit disappointing.

The fact that even the preview isn't a TUI is just lame. Keyboard controls are also non-functional right now.

trollbridgetoday at 1:11 PM

I don’t want to be a curmudgeon, but why not just use CSS, HTML, React, etc. at this point? You could choose a style that looks like a TUI.

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lsaferitetoday at 12:32 PM

I find it slightly annoying and disappointing that the blocks saying what frameworks it's designed to export to aren't links to those frameworks.

kantordtoday at 12:04 PM

this looks insanely cool.

One of the most original ideas I have seen on HackerNews in the past few years.

WhereIsTheTruthtoday at 2:22 PM

This website eats a whole CPU core

Another W from the web developers mafia

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rvztoday at 2:18 PM

No idea why this is hyped up these days.

The only reason I can think of is what I said before [0] given that the web was destroyed by the same web developers, then so was the desktop (with Electron) and now of all places terminals are now getting destroyed with infinite slop like this.

This nonsense will continue and accelerate until it reaches hardware.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210187

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mipselaertoday at 10:32 AM

Amazing cool design tool for TUI's I got it running instantly and it feels stable and complete as well. Only 10 stars in GitHub.

webprofusiontoday at 1:23 PM

Ha, well proof that AI let's you build anything you can imagine. Wait till I show you Remote Desktop, one day macOS and Linux will catch up.