Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız

Ratatui is a Rust framework for building rich--and incredible--UIs in the terminal. Bryan and Adam were joined by Orhun Parmaksız, who leads the project, to discuss the glory--as well as the ubiquity and utility!--of TUIs.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill (bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social) and Adam Leventhal (bsky.app/profile/ahl.bsky.social), our special guest was Orhun Parmaksız (bsky.app/profile/orhun.dev). We were also joined by slightly-less-special guests Andrew Stone, Rain Paharia (bsky.app/profile/sunshowers.io), and Josh Clulow (bsky.app/profile/sunshowers.io).

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• Ratatui (ratatui.rs)
• Orhun's blog (orhun.dev)
• Orhun's FOSDEM 2025 talk (YT) (youtube.com/watch?v=iepbyYrF_YQ) or (fosdem.org) with slides link etc. (fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-549…)
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
• Minitel rust stack (github.com/plule/minitel)
• ratatui on Minitel (youtube.com/watch?v=1qwrJ4NbFls)
• Spotify player tui (github.com/aome510/spotify-player)
• Discord TUI (github.com/ayn2op/discordo)
• Orhun: tui-rs to ratatui transition blog post (blog.orhun.dev/ratatui-0-21-0)
• OxF: Oxide's ratatui based configuration (share.transistor.fm/s/13d3f864)
• github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
• OxF: Describing the Oxide management network (share.transistor.fm/s/217e1960)
• Ratzilla (github.com/orhun/ratzilla)
• Terminal Collective (terminalcollective.org)
• tui web bub / art (fosstodon.org/@orhun/113828973153921659)
• ratatui testing with snapshots (ratatui.rs/recipes/testing/snapshots)
• github.com/Pingid/rizzup
• github.com/veeso/tui-realm
• Asterion (github.com/ricott1/asterion) (game)
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar (calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f418…). We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!