Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderFor Golang there is Bubbletea [1], Textual [2] for Python and tui-rs for Rust [3]. [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea [2] https://github.com/textualize/textual [3] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
Ink is great for CLI tools and enables really great tools. People who are saying React only belongs on DOM are missing out- React is the world's most popular and powerful declarative programming paradigm. It's being used for native apps, VR, 3d, CAD and electronics. React allows you to mix declarative and imperative programming concepts together in an effective way. To give a sense of why this is important: Imagine a CLI built with XML. It'd probably be pretty verbose…
Some time ago I built a (terminal) text editor and one of the challenges is to implement the renderer which is normally done by messing with termios and changing some terminal parameters - as this is "device"-dependent there exist databases like terminfo and abstraction-layers like curses which give you an API similar to "Write this text at position x/y in green". However curses and terminfo are big programs and most terminals they support are not in use anymore, so if…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 893
- Total comments
- 326
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-16 | Ink: React for CLIs – Build and test your CLI output using components | ingve | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-07-21 | React for interactive command-line apps | aaronwhite | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-07-23 | Ink: React for interactive command-line appsFirst breakout | ingve | 129 | 42 |
| 2017-12-28 | Ink – React for CLIs | dsego | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-04-02 | React for command-line tools | mofle | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-07-05 | Vadimdemedes/ink: React for interactive command-line apps | amjd | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-05-22 | Ink: React for interactive command-line apps | rgbrgb | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-05-08 | Ink: React for interactive command-line appsHall induction · Best thread | thunderbong | 588 | 178 |
| 2024-11-01 | Ink: React for interactive CLI appsLatest 20+ point return | brianzelip | 164 | 106 |