notcurses/OTHERS.md
Nick Black ebcba82d4b
Fully general ncvisual layer (#647)
This represents an essentially complete rewrite of ncvisual and associated code. It had two major goals:

Improve the ncvisual API based off lessons learned, pursuant to the upcoming API freeze. In particular, I wanted to:

decouple ncvisuals from ncplanes. It should be possible to render a ncvisual to multiple planes, with different scaling each time. It should be possible to create an ncvisual without a plane, etc.
normalize the various ways of constructing an ncvisual -- file, memory, plane, etc.
Support multiple blitters, from 7-bit ASCII to Sixel. This required writing the blitters in several cases, and they're not yet in their final implementations (but the API is fine)
I have not yet unified Plots and Visuals, and might not, given that the Plot code works fine. We could at this point implement Plots in terms of Visuals, though -- the blitter backend range has been unified. Sixel is not yet implemented, though it is listed.

There is a new POC tool, blitter. It renders its arguments using all possible blitter+scaling combinations. Another new POC, resize, displays its argument, then resizes it to the screen size and displays that, explicitly making use of ncvisual_resize() rather than a scaling parameter to ncvisual_render().

This also eliminates some memory leaks and bugs we were seeing in trunk, and brings in Sixel scaffolding.

The C++ wrapper will also need patching back up; I cut most of it down while wrestling with this crap, urk.

Closes #638, #562, and #622.
2020-05-28 21:16:58 -04:00

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# Other TUI libraries of note
* [NCURSES](https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/) (C)
* [caca](http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca) (C)
* [Newt](https://pagure.io/newt) (C)
* [FINAL CUT](https://github.com/gansm/finalcut) (C++)
* [ImTui](https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui) [C++]
* [tui-rs](https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs) (Rust)
* [crossterm](https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm) (Rust)
* [termwiz](https://github.com/wez/wezterm/tree/master/termwiz) (Rust)
* [blessed-contrib](https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib) (Javascript)
* [tty-cursor](https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty-cursor) (Ruby)
* [vty](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vty) (Haskell)
* [hscharm](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hscharm) (Haskell)
* [S-Lang](http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/) (S-Lang)
* [termbox-go](https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go) (Go)
* [tcell](https://github.com/gdamore/tcell) (Go)
* [termui](https://github.com/gizak/termui) (Go)
* [gocui](https://github.com/jroimartin/gocui) (Go)
* [tview](https://github.com/rivo/tview) (Go)
* [blessings](https://github.com/erikrose/blessings) [Python]
* [urwid](https://github.com/urwid/urwid) [Python]
## Declarative
* [brick](https://github.com/jtdaugherty/brick) (Haskell, atop vty)
* [zui](https://github.com/zdharma/zui) [Zsh, atop zdharma]