Yes, stop making TUIs. Make GUIs in Terminals!

It’s ridiculous how far we have fallen behind the Terminal GUIs from the early 90ies. Look at the Turbo Pascal IDE and business apps built with it. Windows, window management, scrolling in windows, rich dialogs. Everything there. While many modern TUIs are just lists with numbers you can select. Everything is pretty rudimentary

I was missing a real terminal GUI library for some software I built. The rudimentary libraries did not work for me.

That‘s why I took Free Vision (the Turbo Vision derivative for Free Pascal) and ported it with the help of Claude Code over to modern Delphi, then modernised the object system and added lots of features and from there we ported it to go.

There are still lots of bugs and oversights (some caused by me not really knowing how original TV worked) that I fix as I go along using it for real projects.

https://github.com/oldwired/fv-delphi-modern https://github.com/oldwired/fv-go