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TUI toolkit written in pure portable shell script (bash/zsh/busybox/ksh/mksh)

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2026-03-13 · latest 2026-06-29

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  1. …mksh and ksh93. Both with excelent feature sets. I even made a platformer game that works on them https://github.com/alganet/tuish/blob/main/examples/game.sh (and zsh/bash/busybox too) to show how feature-complete they are. Shell…
    comment by gaigalas · 2026-06-29 · in POSIX Is Not a Shell
  2. …shell scripts, not the compiler. If you want something one would actually use, try my project tuish: http://github.com/alganet/tuish
    comment by gaigalas · 2026-04-03 · in C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell
  3. Seems nice. I launched https://github.com/alganet/tuish yesterday (pure shell backend). Exporting to pure shell could be a killer feature, especially for smaller and ad-hoc apps (no dependencies, no compilation, etc).
    comment by gaigalas · 2026-03-13 · in TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool