Fabulous

Dev tools

terminal image rendering library

SHOW HN2016

19points
13comments
#1,233of 2,264 in 2016
Top 55%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Cool project, far beyond termcolor

    From 1 comment
  • Good job keeping an old project current

    From 1 comment
    • great job keeping stuff like this current...it is sad to think how many promising projects might get lost due to inability of the original devs to maintain them. Sorry if i…
      Hortinstein on HN

Requests

  • Support Python 3

    From 2 comments
    • great job keeping stuff like this current...it is sad to think how many promising projects might get lost due to inability of the original devs to maintain them. Sorry if i…
      Hortinstein on HN
    • You should in general just to support Python3... the more people that support it, the better for the ecosystem.
      brianwawok on HN
  • Add true color support

    From 1 comment
    • Are you planning to support true color? This gist has some information and also tracks adoption in other software packages: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
      IsmaOlvey on HN

Questions

  • Does it support Python 2 and 3?

    From 1 comment
    • great job keeping stuff like this current...it is sad to think how many promising projects might get lost due to inability of the original devs to maintain them. Sorry if i…
      Hortinstein on HN

Alternatives named

  • catimg

    From 1 comment
    • There's standalone utility catimg (https://github.com/posva/catimg) written in C. It supports animation and 2x "retina" resolution using unicode symbols. Here's blog post about…
      batat on HN
  • hiptext

    From 1 comment
    • No, looks fine for me (Retina display). For those that are interested, I've also released my approach to imagery in the terminal (Python): https://github.com/daleroberts/tv
      daleroberts on HN

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