Considering textual as gui framework?

[funkyfuture]

ciao, i glanced over your blog post about this project. and since time has passed, i wondered whether you are aware of https://github.com/Textualize/textual which is an option for GUIs as well. i think it's plausible that terminal based apps are easier to maintain over a long time as the underlying technology is not about to change.

[JOJ0]

Hi @funkyfuture I always wanted to tell you some thoughts and thank you for the idea but I never did. So now with some even more surprising news. I did it. Parts of DiscoDOS are new Textual-based. I decided that for some parts I still prefer a regular CLI workflow, but for others Textual is just perfect. So DiscoDOS wants the best of both worlds and still runs in a terminal.

https://github.com/JOJ0/discodos/blob/master/README.md#viewing-marketplace-stats-editing-listings-fetching-videos

Also a lot of things are now more colorful thanks to the Rich library by the same author:

https://github.com/JOJ0/discodos/blob/master/README.md#selling-a-record

So yeah, this is my thanks for suggesting that framework! I was aware of it back then and it always looked interesting, but probably your post got me thinking more about it and even considering it for DiscoDOS. Fun fact: Since a couple of months I actually learned how to build React apps, which would theoretically bring me closer to writing a ReactNative mobile version. My needs changed though and a desktop terminal version is all I need :-) Thanks again!