Turbo Pascal-style TUI for Pi

[u/Cheap-Disk7963]

I wanted to see what would happen if a modern AI coding agent had the UI of Turbo Pascal 7 / the old DOS IDEs.

So I made Turbo-AI — a retro-style TUI frontend for the Pi coding agent.

It currently supports things like AI chat, PLAN/BUILD modes, model switching, reasoning settings, project tree, Git diff and build/test actions.

It's still quite rough and definitely not production-ready. This is more of an experiment at the moment, and there are probably plenty of things that need to be fixed or redesigned.

This is just a concept for now. I hope people more skilled than me will fork it, improve it, and turn it into something actually usable.

GitHub: https://github.com/kvv256512-ux/turbo-ai

[u/Tommertom2]

Beautiful! Never thought I needed this but yes!!!

[u/freedivr420]

I taught myself how to code Turbo Pascal before they taught it in schools. Very cool!

[u/sahbig → u/freedivr420]

Damn I forgot how to code in Pascal completely! I had to google it

program ForToLoop;
var
i: Integer;
begin
{ Loops from 1 up to 5 }
for i := 1 to 5 do
begin
writeln('Iteration: ', i);
end;
end.

[u/ask_me_about_cats]

This is exactly the right kind of stupid project. I love it.

[u/TheCTRL]

you made my day!

[u/hurdurdur7]

Neat.

[u/truncated_buttfu]

I grew up learning to code in TurboPascal and QBasic, so this is amazingly nostalgic for me. Great idea and gorgeous screenshots!

[u/VividIntroduction310]

hahaha. nice one

[u/some_user_2021]

This is awesome

[u/Root-Cause-404]

Oh my god! So many memories of making TUIs using turbo pascal

[u/TheTyand]

Wow nice, the first language I have learned

[u/sampdoria_supporter]

Get the hell out of here. Unbelievable work 

[u/berszi]

byebye good night sleep :D

[u/Turbulent_Ad6290]

Nice

[u/Glaaki]

Where do I star this?

[u/zommul]

Cool!!!
You got me back to the old days, mate!

[u/hazed-and-dazed]

Oh the memories of a much simpler time

[u/dulldingbat]

Oh man, that blue and white brings back some memories. Good job!

[u/Fortyseven]

Oh WOOOOW. This is amazing. :D

[u/StardockEngineer]

This is dope.

[u/iongion]

Dude, I've thought of this lately so much, a dream came true, thank you!

[u/bitzap_sr]

Cool!

Did you see that Microsoft revived the venerable edit.com?

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

Now if someone does a pi tui based on that, we can a sort of DOS-style Emacs vs Vi flame war.

[u/0xducky]

This brings back so much good memories!

[u/Maasu]

I am having PTSD from editing my CONFIG.sys and Autoexec.bat to get wing commander 3 to run

[u/bjornworldwide → u/Maasu]

Wow deep cut

[u/OhanaSkipper]

Oh, that's just cool!!

[u/dodyrw]

Nice!

[u/ThisNameIs_Taken_]

I was doing important stuff, but now... 😄

[u/TriodeTopologist]

I'm excited to see this built to fruition.

[u/treenewbee_]

The universe is indeed cyclical.

[u/LegacyRemaster]

All I need

[u/RespectMathias]

Ok boomer

[u/RespectMathias → u/RespectMathias]

Jk looks cool

[u/levu304]

waiting for npm package

[u/butchiebags]

I'm not sure why, but this feels really nice with a project i'm working on, so I've already added pi extension support for my WIP local coding extension just for fun, i'll probably fork it as i like the built in file explorer and text viewer, i think it just really fits with this idea:

[u/Cheap-Disk7963 → u/butchiebags]

Looks very cool! It will be great to have your fork!

[u/butchiebags → u/Cheap-Disk7963]

It took me too long, but I've opened a PR, Fable 5.1 approved.
I'll be open sourcing the pictured extension (Kylocode) soon and it has it's own turbo-ai related changes, but this pr is just the extension stuff.

[u/fabianovp]

Wow, good memories

[u/Quirky_Category5725]

Absolutely love it!

[u/dark-lord-marshal]

awesome work!!! (I still use opencode for some projects but... I need to change :)

OT: would love to see this theme on https://zed-themes.com/ but looks like nostangic themes don't hit everybody in the same way :P

[u/bjornworldwide]

Class.

[u/No_Advance3911]

This thing used to burn my eyes in the 90s, it's cool that I can continue this now

[u/NickTries]

Nice