Post-mortem Analysis: Building a Custom Terminal UI Library Called 'kruci'
By
Patryk27
Sesame, salt, and substance. A flagship bake.
Summary
This article is a post-mortem analysis of a personal UI library project called 'kruci' that the author developed as an experimental side project. The author reflects on the challenges of building a custom terminal-based user interface toolkit, discussing the technical trade-offs, design decisions, and lessons learned from the failed experiment. The content covers terminal UI development, the complexities of creating UI toolkits from scratch, and the author's personal journey through this programming side project.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI love doing experiments - side projects to my side projects, for fun or out of necessity.
Sometimes those experiments end up in something useful, other times - not so much.
My programming spare time is dedicated mostly towards kartoffels, a game of mine where you're im
Who didn't once want to roll their own user interface toolkit?
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