[HN Gopher] Notcurses 2.4 ___________________________________________________________________ Notcurses 2.4 Author : marcodiego Score : 33 points Date : 2021-09-06 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | yjftsjthsd-h wrote: | > The terminal is now extensively (but efficiently) queried on | startup. Some properties are derived from the results. | | > Eventually, this will be expanded to eliminate our reliance on | TERM and dependence on terminfo. | | So they're doing feature detection? I didn't know that was | possible for terminals, but if it is then it does seem like a | nice step forward. Of course, it seems like such an obvious | improvement that I'm curious why it hasn't happened before (i.e. | why is everyone else still depending on TERM?) | sprash wrote: | I like the very entertaining and thorough documentation. However | this just shows that FOSS GUI programming is in such a dire state | that people have to resort to TUIs because it is so much _easier_ | to develop for and to deploy. | yjftsjthsd-h wrote: | Is that really a FOSS issue? | quotemstr wrote: | Something like this has been sorely needed. terminfo has simply | failed to keep up with modern terminal features, and propagating | new terminfo database entries to remote systems has been a | challenge. The combination has been a stagnation of terminal | programs combined with hacky ad-hoc feature detection or non- | TERM-based, non-portable feature signaling. | mrlonglong wrote: | This looks cool, gonna kick the tyres and take it for a spin | fnord77 wrote: | just brew installed it and ran their demo. | | impressive! | | 41% rust :thumbup: | merb wrote: | > 41% rust :thumbup: | | which is only a wrapper library/bindings. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-06 23:00 UTC)