I've been watching this evolve following Will on Twitter over the last few months - it's really exciting. I love how he's posting progress videos to the README too.
The underlying library Rich is some of the best API design I've seen in ages, so I have very high expectations of Textual which it looks like it's easily going to meet.
Mainly it's the absurd amount of functionality that's packed into the library, in a way that interoperates in a predictable way.
Rich does a LOT of stuff, and all of the things it does work with each other - so it's easy to compose them together into sophisticated combined layouts.
It can render Markdown in a way that works on a console. It has gorgeous progress bars and spinners built in. It has a very competent table layout mechanism.
This looks beautiful. I've already started using Rich in the REPL - it's definitely a nice little upgrade to get. The developer is very responsive and the project looks amazing.
It's great to see some more competitors on the TUI front of the Python ecosystem! I recently tried multiple existing frameworks and was not particularly happy with the state.
Here are the main contenders for libraries that provide higher-level API than urwid/ncurses:
Both Picotui and Npyscreen are relatively unmaintained / considered feature-full. py_cui seems to be in the best shape.
Fingers crossed for this project making it through, building on top of Rich gives it quite a bit of headstart. You can also sponsor @willmcgugan on Github [0].
A project I’m considering would have something similar to the Django admin interface but a TUI with keyboard shortcuts like shift+F9 and I’d like a “pick one and stick with it” recommendation for a TUI toolkit. That said, if a TUI front end for Django admin tasks already exists and I’ve missed it, I’d love to just use that rather than starting from scratch.
I did look into it, but its focus on animations gave me the perhaps unfair impression that the more mundane text UI elements (i.e. forms, etc.) would be a second-class citizen.
Looked like a really great library to build a text adventure game with though!
I haven't done a TUI since using curses, which is appropriately named.
I do have some scripts used by non-developers, who can do things on the command line, but only by wrote. This would be really great for that vs having to build out a web-based thing.
This looks like DOS-based UIs, but so much nicer. I just never even considered that a possibility.
It looks like it's aiming for a very usable API, I'll try to follow its progress.
SwiftUI is pretty clearly inspired by React, and as Will hinted in a sister comment, Rich is inspired by (I assume) React as well. So, I think the relationship is tangential rather than direct.
The underlying library Rich is some of the best API design I've seen in ages, so I have very high expectations of Textual which it looks like it's easily going to meet.