Slack Curses-Based CLI Client

cretz commented 8 years ago

I'm tired of having several processes on my desktop to support the electron Slack client each using tens of MB
A good opportunity to learn more Rust

cretz commented 8 years ago

Well, Rust doesn't currently have a great pure cross-platform console UI story yet. There is https://github.com/gchp/rustbox/ which lacks Windows support and https://github.com/jeaye/ncurses-rs which leverages ncurses which is not pure Rust and more importantly doesn't support Windows very well. I have had success with accessing https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses from Rust (e.g. https://gist.github.com/cretz/4586b6afa140a13c4b2f) but it is very low level and would require a lot of scaffolding to build components for.

As for the JS side, https://github.com/chjj/blessed appears awesome but I had trouble with how it handled Windows cmd.exe (the cursor was constantly wrapping and shifting the contents).

Go is probably best. I even opened #14 if I were to ever work on something like this.

cretz commented 7 years ago

See: https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term

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