cli/tui apps

What are the functionalities a cli/tui app framework has to have to work well?
- What is the base language? (python? rust? java?)
- How to parse input (string parsing)
- How to handle keyboard events
- How to print to screen
  - How to style texts printed to screen
    - How is this type of styling different from web styling?
    - Rich: A Python library for text formatting
- What else?
Textual — the lean application framework
- Getting Started _{on exposes}
- Examples:
  - Dolphie: An intuitive feature-rich terminal tool for monitoring MySQL in real-time
  - [Elia: A terminal ChatGPT client built with Textual]
  - [Harlequin.sh: The DuckDB IDE for your terminal]
  - Extra list: https://www.textualize.io/projects/
Bubble Tea: A TUI framework for Go
What are some popular standard terminal apps?
- MongoDB, PostgreSql, Kafka, “code”, “subl”??
- or, are these the major proper terminal apps?: “ls”, “tree”, “cat”, “nano”, “git”, “ffmpeg”, “pip”, “vercel”, etc.
- How is a terminal app different from software you download and run in the terminal?

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