Comment by zozbot234
2 years ago
I do wonder what the easiest, most straightforward path to a full TUI IDE would be today. Perhaps starting from the codebase of a lean graphical IDE like Lapce and adding a TUI-powered backend. (Note that text editors do exist with that kind of interface, the real gap is wrt. the IDE features including LSP and DAP interop.)
One could always use the updated Turbo Vision library[1], which originally was used for the Turbo Pascal/Turbo C++ IDEs mentioned in the article...
[1]: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
Vim and emacs do already have plugins for LSP. Probably DAP too. But like everything CLI, it might take a bit of initial set up to get it right.