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The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

https://charm.land/blog/v2/
68•atkrad•1h ago

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ftchd•1h ago
man I want to know where their creativity comes from, it's like they've built an entire world with a story... but it's just a (highly regarded) collection of packages
atkrad•1h ago
It's intentional design. They picked a strong visual identity early and applied it consistently; the name, the color palette, the retro terminal feel. Every package looks like it belongs to the same family. Most open source projects never think about this. Charm did from day one.
zelphirkalt•12m ago
This has led to a completely overblown design of at least their website. All these cutesy pictures of bubble tea, way too big graphical wrappers, no simple page that is labeled "screenshots", no explanation what "bubbletea" actually is, ... One would think it to be a simple task to mention somewhere that this is a TUI library, where one can see it at the first glance. But apparently not. Instead I am seeing:

    Your new coding bestie, now available in your favourite terminal. Your tools, your code, and your workflows, wired into your LLM of choice. This is artificial intelligence made glamourous.
Eh, so something about AI tools? And is "Crush" another tool than "bubbletea"? Why am I seeing something about "Crush" and not about "bubbletea"?

Maybe it's simply not my taste. For a TUI library, I expect serious listings of what it can do, what it supports, what it helps you with. Is it a layer on top of ncurses? Features and use-cases over meaningless authority arguments like "Look who uses this too!".

I also see:

    We make the command line glamorous.
I don't want my command line to change! I configured it to be just how I like it. What they mean is, that they make command line applications using their library "glamorous" (whatever that means). I have a suggestion for a better slogan: "Your advanced command line widgets library" or "Library for advanced TUI applications".

Maybe I am nitpicking too much.

slopinthebag•8m ago
I think it's both completely valid to feel this way, and also valid for them to have fun with their design and aesthetic. If you already know what charm does, it makes perfect sense and is cool to see.
neom•59m ago
I don't understand what this is but I kinda want it. Is it kinda cool-retro-term + starship?
joshka•55m ago
Go libraries for making terminal UIs

- https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

- https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles

- https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss

pennomi•36m ago
But why when Claude can write you a perfectly laggy tui in react?
written-beyond•32m ago
It may be a coincidence but there has been an increase in thinly veiled humor in HN comments.
keyle•13m ago
Thanks finally some clarity.

I've been using tcell, it's been fine... This just looks like fancy TUI without real benefits but wowing the user at first run...

zabzonk•37m ago
Please, a simple web page that tells me what this does, and why I should use it. Links to github have never done this for me.
yegle•16m ago
https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea has a couple screencast worth checking out.

Not sure if it's a good comparison (never used both in depth) but think of this a Go version of all the goodies from https://textual.textualize.io/

WhyNotHugo•30m ago
Somehow this whole ecosystem of tools always gives me a bad vibe, and I can't quite pinpoint why.

All the demos and videos are applications with lots of stacked pop-ups/modal windows, and things moving around continuously. It all reminds me of what we typically see in computers in TV shows or sci-fi films.

It just looks like a chaotic mess of things, and I get this really strong urge to just stay away from it all.

zipping1549•4m ago
Bubbletea is actually pretty cool. I also agree that the website doesn't look so good.
GaggiX•23m ago
It took me too long to understand that this is just a TUI library for Go
AberrantJ•15m ago
Thank you, I was excited for new drinks and flavors and this saved me the read.
jofzar•18m ago
It's crazy how much this UI design is like future retro 2008 design.

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