acbDec 6

Borland TurboVision (the PC text mode windowing UI used in Turbo Pascal/C++) has been open-sourced and updated to work seamlessly on Linux and with Unicode:

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

It’s all in C++, though if someone hasn’t wrapped it in bindings for Python/Rust/&c. yet, surely they will

GitHub - magiblot/tvision: A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.

A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support. - magiblot/tvision

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Show threadKyle Davis

@acb the weird-ass Borland legalese in the COPYRIGHT file holds this back.

Any sufficiently large company with automated license/IP compliance checking tools with spit it out, so as dependency its messy.

It’s a shame because I could spend most of my development workflow in turbo vision based tools.

Dec 6 at 9:38pmWeb