Hack on rich terminal user interfaces
an invention by amanzini
Updated 10 months ago. 9 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Description

TUIs (Textual User Interface) are a big classic of our daily workflow. Many linux users 'live' in the terminal and modern implementations have a lot to offer : unicode fonts, 24 bit colors etc.

Goals

  • Explore the current available solution on modern languages and implement a PoC , for example a small maze generator, porting of a classic game or just display the HackWeek cute logo.
  • Practice some Go / Rust coding and programming patterns
  • Fiddle around, hack, learn, have fun
  • keep a development diary, practice on project documentation

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Looking for hackers with the skills:

golang go terminal

This project is part of:

Hack Week 24

Activity

  • 10 months ago: amanzini added keyword "golang" to this project.
  • 10 months ago: amanzini added keyword "go" to this project.
  • 10 months ago: amanzini added keyword "terminal" to this project.
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    • amanzini
      10 months ago by amanzini | Reply

      A small retrospective: this year I had quite a fun time, which was the main purpose of the project; I refreshed some Go programming and maze generation - solving algorithms ; learned about the ELM Architecture as well. Documented day by day and published video/screens of the work, also keeping a simple development diary. I consider the project finished, even it's still missing to explore the Rust options so any contribution is welcome add-emoji

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