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<struktured> Debating on writing a tui, wanted to try minttea but it's not async/core compatible yet. Lambda term was popular a while ago but seems to be in maintenance mode. I haven't tried Nottui yet but wondering if I should consider it. Ncurses is too low level for my tastes and want to avoid C bindings where possible. Any other suggestions I'm missing here? Thanks
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<darrenldl> nottui+notty been okay for the tool i'm working on (docfd), but you'll likely need to roll your own widgets for line wrapping textbox etc
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<struktured> Thanks for the suggestion, will give it a trial. I found the minttea demo more impressive than the nottui so it biased my initial search
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<darrenldl> is minttea tied to riot?
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<struktured> yes, which is why I can't use it with janestreet core. Riot has a core library too and the name conflicts (with the opam released versions, at least)
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<darrenldl> for nottui i'm vendoring its stepping function so i can have a eio yield between each step, so not fully ideal in principle, but not noticeable from user perspective
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<struktured> if it works, it works. In my case I kind of care about update speed, but honestly I just want a good developer experience
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<darrenldl> minttea demos look nice indeed and seems to have a richer set of widgets
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<darrenldl> yeah idk, what kind of tui are you making?
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<struktured> a live order book representation, for starters, but will add more tui interfaces if I like the library I'm using enough
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<darrenldl> seems viable in either
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<darrenldl> i guess it boils down to if you like reactivity or transition function style of updating the tui
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<struktured> agreed, although the minttea version would be super easy- it's just a small mod of their table example.
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<struktured> Lambda term is probably cooler to me but the riot version has some practicality I appreciate, and eio is nice
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<struktured> I will study nottui a bit, thanks again for the suggestions
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<struktured> just googled docfd btw, looks pretty nifty
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<darrenldl> thanks haha
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<darrenldl> been handy for work : v
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<struktured> way more complicated tui than what I'm trying to do, proves out nottui for sure
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<darrenldl> fwiw, i had plan to roll the widgets i wrote for docfd into a lib on top of lwd, notty and nottui, but uh no time or motivation
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<darrenldl> and not that many tui people around, but if enough interest that could be a motivation for my holiday project : v
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<struktured> either that or some other tui will arise on your plate and then you have to make a library