TLDR Web Dev · OPINIONS & ADVICE

7 THINGS I'VE LEARNED BUILDING A MODERN TUI FRAMEWORK

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

While building a modern TUI (Terminal UI) framework, this author found that it's important to have smooth animation in terminals, achieved through techniques like overwriting instead of clearing, single-write updates, and the Synchronized Output protocol. He also advocates for DictViews for efficiently comparing data structures, and lru_cache for improving performance by caching function results.