Living the 80s, I guess the current nostalgia wave across tapes, portable CD players, Vynil and co, also applies to computer interfaces.

Excited to try it out as well. I often need to build simple CLI based apps in ruby so often would reach for TTY Toolkit: https://ttytoolkit.org/

However, I feel like it's in maintenance mode at this point, so glad to see some new options available.

Shouldn't some software be allowed to be done? Maintenance mode on a TUI library seems a reasonable place to be.

Sure. I was probably trying to be too polite and didn't want to use the word "abandoned", but that's probably a better term for the library at this point. There's a good amount of open issues and PRs in many of the component gems that haven't been addressed in years and requests to help maintain it have gone unanswered[0].

[0] https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty-prompt/issues/210

Looks exciting!

Does it have proper support for opening an external editor (via $EDITOR like nano, vim, etc?)? I ran into issues with that in Ink and had to switch over to Bubbletea, but I'd love to use Ruby instead of Go

I just made a new installer for Discourse on CharmRuby, now I gotta check this out and see if porting is feasible. Hopefully this reduces the app size, that is quite large with CharmRuby

Landing page is great: informative, visual example, clear code example. Love it

Thank you! I wrote the code snippets and picked the color palette, but the web design came by way of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587284

And my wife, wonderful as always, helped critique the writing! My RadioMenu class's comments (in the "See More: Inline menu example" expando-section) were far worse before she helped.

Love it

Looks really interesting, I’m excited to explore this.

Looking forward to experimenting with it. Looks awesome!

Fantastic, this looks excellent and excited to try it

super cool, great work Kerrick!

Thank you! My first Show HN in 2012 [0] was an inline TUI (of sorts) written in Ruby [1], so this is a great day.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4017933

[1]: https://kerrick.github.io/google/

I can't like this enough, Ruby is perfect language for TUI apps and emergence of TUI apps is really welcome change.

This is awesome, will definitely take this for a spin!

Thank you! Please let me know how you find it. I want to make sure the DX is as good as possible.