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SE Radio 669: Will McGugan on Text-Based User Interfaces
·51 min·4 clips
Will McGugan reveals how Rich makes terminal data instantly readable with color, style, and smart formatting.
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A practical look at why polished terminal interfaces are harder, and more useful, than they first appear.
Will McGugan treats Rich and Textual as a real design problem, not a bit of terminal polish. The piece explains how progress bars, tables, and other renderables fit together in practical CLIs and TUIs, and the performance section lands best: rapid progress updates can become the…
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If you build Python CLIs, this shows how Rich and Textual handle terminal UI work in practice.
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