How about colors and terminal graphics in std.format?

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Mon Mar 12 22:34:06 PDT 2012


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:17:42PM +1300, James Miller wrote:
> On 13 March 2012 15:17, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> > We could start off with said module just doing colors for now, and
> > then gradually add more stuff to it later.
> 
> We could end up at a D-flavoured ncurses library!
[...]

That would be a dream come true for me.

I have to admit that I find the ncurses API quite ugly, and not very
well-designed. It's the curse (pun intended) of inheriting a decades-old
API that was designed back in the days when people didn't know very much
about good API design.


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