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It just so happens that I’ve built one already: TUI4J (Terminal User Interface for Java). https://github.com/WilliamAGH/tui4j https://github.com/WilliamAGH/tui

It just so happens that I’ve built one already: TUI4J (Terminal User Interface for Java). https://github.com/WilliamAGH/tui4j https://github.com/WilliamAGH/tui4j It combines a port of BubbleTea from Go, and Textual and other inspired rewrites of other functionality. It’s a fork of someone’s earlier work that I sought to expand/stabilize. I built a beautifully simple LLM chat interface with full dialog windows, animations, and full support for keyboard and mouse interactivity parity, showing what this Java library is capable of. Example chat app: https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief Would love to see others build similar things with it!

dundarious 9mo ago
I had no idea what brief was until I read the env var api key docs in the subdirectory. I think you should not lead with "it's a tui4j app!" and "it's terminal chat!". It's a terminal OpenAI ChatGPT interface. Screenshot wouldn't hurt either, given it's an advertisement for the presentation library.
- wcallahan 9mo ago
  Great ideas for both :) I wasn’t expecting the main topic of what I’ve been building to appear on the cover of hacker news today, so I was caught a bit unprepared, but they were definitely on the todo list next!
maxandersen 9mo ago
cool - you've hidden that well as I spent a lot of time searching for these. Will definitely check it out. ...where is the jar for brief? :)
- maxandersen 9mo ago
  ah - tui4j is continuation of latte. Cool - now I grok why it looked similar. cool!
  - wcallahan 9mo ago
    Hope you enjoy tui4j and brief!
- wcallahan 9mo ago
  I made some tweaks to the Github releases config, you should be able to do this now as well: curl -L -o brief.zip https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief/releases/latest/download/brief.zip https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief/releases/latest/download... unzip brief.zip cd brief-*/ ./bin/brief
  - maxandersen 9mo ago
    Cool - but I really was hoping for a maven coordinate or a .jar since then I could run it directly with jbang :)

dundarious 9mo ago

I had no idea what brief was until I read the env var api key docs in the subdirectory. I think you should not lead with "it's a tui4j app!" and "it's terminal chat!". It's a terminal OpenAI ChatGPT interface. Screenshot wouldn't hurt either, given it's an advertisement for the presentation library.

wcallahan 9mo ago
Great ideas for both :) I wasn’t expecting the main topic of what I’ve been building to appear on the cover of hacker news today, so I was caught a bit unprepared, but they were definitely on the todo list next!

maxandersen 9mo ago

cool - you've hidden that well as I spent a lot of time searching for these. Will definitely check it out. ...where is the jar for brief? :)

maxandersen 9mo ago
ah - tui4j is continuation of latte. Cool - now I grok why it looked similar. cool!
- wcallahan 9mo ago
  Hope you enjoy tui4j and brief!
wcallahan 9mo ago
I made some tweaks to the Github releases config, you should be able to do this now as well: curl -L -o brief.zip https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief/releases/latest/download/brief.zip https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief/releases/latest/download... unzip brief.zip cd brief-*/ ./bin/brief
- maxandersen 9mo ago
  Cool - but I really was hoping for a maven coordinate or a .jar since then I could run it directly with jbang :)