Hardware Podcasts

Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız

Oxide and Friends · 13 Feb 2025 · 1h 32m · Episode 5

What this episode covers

Orhun Parmaksız, who leads the Ratatui project, joins Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal of Oxide Computer Company to discuss the evolution of textual user interfaces (TUIs) in Rust. They cover the transition from the unmaintained tui-rs library to the community-driven Ratatui, highlighting its use in Oxide's management software (Wicket) and the Humility debugger. The conversation explores cross-platform capabilities, including running Ratatui on legacy Minitel hardware and via WebAssembly using the new Ratzilla library, as well as testing strategies and future architectural plans for the framework.

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Oxide Computer Company
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Ratatui, tui-rs, Minitel, Ratzilla, Wicket, Humility, Hubris, Spotify TUI, RizUp, Tui-realm, CrossTerm, Termion

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