Text User Interfaces in Rust (with Orhun Parmaksız)

For some kinds of application, there is no faster or cheaper way to build a user interface than in the terminal. Sure, it’s not going to suit every kind of user out there, but for those of us that are happy on the command line, rich Text User Interfaces (or TUIs) open all the exploration and discoverability benefits of a GUI are a fraction of the development time. This week we’re looking at a Rust TUI library with the excellent name ‘ratatui’. We’re joined by Orhun Parmaksız, one of the lead developers and a huge TUI enthusiast on a quest to see how far Text UIs can be pushed. – Ratatui: https://ratatui.rs/ Ratatouille Tutorials: https://ratatui.rs/tutorials/ Tui Realm: https://github.com/veeso/tui-realm Awesome Ratatui: https://github.com/ratatui/awesome-ratatui RTL SDR: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/ Rust Snake AI: https://github.com/bones-ai/rust-snake-ai-ratatui SystemCtl-Tui: https://github.com/rgwood/systemctl-tui GitU: https://github.com/altsem/gitu …and GitUi: https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui GitCliff Changelog Tool: https://git-cliff.org/ ATAC (Postman in the Terminal): https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC BubbleTea (TUIs in Golang): https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea Imgcat (images in the terminal): https://github.com/danielgatis/imgcat TachyonFX: https://github.com/junkdog/tachyonfx ASCIITheatre: https://ascii.theater/ Rio Terminal: https://raphamorim.io/rio/ -- Support Developer Voices on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DeveloperVoices Support Developer Voices on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DeveloperVoices/join Kris on Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@krisajenkins Kris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins/ Kris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/krisajenkins -- 0:00 Intro 4:08 How Far Can A Text UI Go? 13:38 Ratatui’s Architecture 26:12 How Would I Structure An App? 31:54 TUIs on the Web? 34:33 Examples of Great TUIs 46:17 Can We Do Live Reloading Yet? 49:36 Nesting Terminals Inside TUIs 52:20 TUIs With Async Rust 56:23 What Are Orhun’s Future Plans? 1:01:23 Getting Started With Ratatui 1:04:25 Outro