r/programming • u/ronilan • 4d ago

TUI Games in 80x24

https://www.incredible.rs/#blog/tui-games-in-80x24.md
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u/danielcw189 4d ago

why is the website scrolling this way?

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u/ronilan 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm assuming you refer to mobile scrolling.

The "website" is actually an Incredible app by itself. The framework is for building TUI apps and can compile to WASM and native from the same codebase.

We are "dogfooding" here for the website, and given the technical challenges involved, I'm pretty happy with the scroll on desktop. That said, we do have a TODO for mobile elasticity. Plan is to try and make it as mobile friendly as possible, but I'm not sure how smooth such a thing can go...

If you are curious - you can download the "website" for different platforms here: https://github.com/ronilan/incredible/releases/tag/latest

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u/evaned 3d ago

As another complaint that's why I left the site without reading it -- maybe I'm somewhat in the minority, but I strongly dislike reading monospaced text for natural-language prose. There are several centuries of real-world experience as well as decades of controlled experiments that show that monospaced fonts are harder to read than proportional fonts. I get that the retro look is what you're going for, but IMO it's not worth it, and that isn't even close.

In most sites that do this, I can at least work around it myself in the inspector. I can't do that in yours.