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SE Radio 669: Will McGugan on Text-Based User Interfaces

2025/5/21
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Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Will McGugan, the CEO and founder of Textualize, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer) about how to use packages such as Rich and Textual to build text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and command-line interfaces (CLIs) in Python. Along with discussing the design idioms that enable developers to create TUIs in Python, they consider practical strategies for efficiently rendering the components of a TUI. They also explore the subtle idiosyncrasies of implementing performant TUI frameworks like Textual and Rich and introduce the steps that developers would take to create their own CLI or TUI.

This episode is sponsored by Fly.io.)