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Textualize
Company blog · textualize.io/blogprogrammingsystems
Textualize is the company blog at textualize.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2022, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Textualize for its Python TUI frameworks (Textual and Rich), its app gallery and its company pages. Commenters mostly point to the gallery and homepage rather than discussing the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Textualize makes Ishmael, a distraction-free editor for novelists, Dinkus, a Markdown studio for Mac, and Textual, a rapid application development framework for Python.
Most-linked posts?
- Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-04-24
- /textual/gallery3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-24
- Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-19
- /what-we-do2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-24
What Hacker News says?
We have a gallery of apps in https://www.textualize.io/textual/gallery I'm surprised how much has been done with it. The version in master has been stuck in limbo while we've been working on the CSS branch.
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on “Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework”Submitted Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework as a story · 439 points
HN discussionWe have a [gallery]( https://www.textualize.io/textual/gallery ) of Textual apps, although largely using the older version on Textual/
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on “Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework”Submitted Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications as a story · 377 points
HN discussionThis excellent article references Textualize, which - as I have just found from their website - has a really great approach to job interviews: https://www.textualize.io/jobs [I have no ties to this company and have never applied there.]
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on “How to create a Python package in 2022”Submitted Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022) as a story · 331 points
HN discussionWe simply have a different perspective on this. You see a TUI and have experience in the "Bronze Age" of the Internet in which browsers were not so stable across platforms/etc. and think that this more or less just doesn't work. I suspect peoples' experiences using it for a while now won't sway you; you are more than welcome to assume everything works only on one computer and is reliably broken elsewhere. I don't ca…
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on “Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications”Submitted Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer as a story · 275 points
HN discussionBe sure to check https://www.textualize.io/what-we-do
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on “Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications”Submitted Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSmall list of projects using rich/textual: https://www.textualize.io/textual/gallery > we are building technology that lets Textual apps run in a web browser (no code changes required) Excited to see how that turns out.
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on “Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications”Cheers. The boxes use this technique, which I think I may have invented, because I've never see it used elsewhere. https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/ceo-just-wants-to... For smooth scrolling, see the first item in this post: https://www.textualize.io/blog/posts/7-things-about-terminal... I'm also fascinated that you can discover new things from a protocol, decades old.
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on “Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer”https://textualize.io for python isn't bad either. (In case you don't like static builds like me.)
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on “Gh-dash: A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub”We featured kaskade on Terminal Trove as tool of the week and looks really cool and useful. https://terminaltrove.com/kaskade/ For those interested, kaskade is made with the Textual TUI framework. https://www.textualize.io/ Thanks for making this sauljp.
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on “Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka”This is why Textualize[1] concerns me. I've tried a few of the applications using their framework, and they have noticable keypress latency . I didn't think it was possible to make a bloated TUI, but they have somehow succeeded. This might just be a Python thing because of the GIL, because VisiData[2] has the same problem. It's physically jarring to use VisiData because it's such a cool idea, but takes 500ms to regi…
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on “The Modern CLI Renaissance”The future of the command line is something along the lines of what these guys are doing: https://www.textualize.io
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on “Building the Future of the Command Line”https://www.textualize.io/
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on “Building a TUI is easy now”I hope he doesn't mind, but the creator of Rich and Textualize is a good guy, and Scottish: https://www.willmcgugan.com/about/ https://www.textualize.io/ https://github.com/Textualize/rich
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on “Ask HN: Programmers and Technologists in Scotland”I have been looking at Python GUI libraries/frameworks/services over the past > 1 year. I'll cut straight to the chase with my recommendations for what they are worth. - NiceGUI https://nicegui.io/#features - my favorite of the bunch, essentially wraps Quasar Vue components with accessible python. Tons of features including SPA, FastAPI under the hood, TailwindCSS. Have used it on a few projects and started contribu…
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on “Python GUIs”How does your example (btop) differ from their usage examples in any meaningful way -> https://www.textualize.io/textual/gallery ?
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on “Textual is a beautiful Terminal User Interface library in Python”There's a gallery for Textual: https://www.textualize.io/textual/gallery And for Rich: https://www.textualize.io/rich/gallery
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on “Textual is a beautiful Terminal User Interface library in Python”
