Building beautiful console applications - Patrik Svensson

With the rise of .NET Core and cross-platform .NET, we're spending more and more at a terminal, and while there are a myriad UI technologies for .NET, the terminal experience has never got the same love and attention. Spectre.Console - a .NET library that makes it easy to create expressive, easy-to-use, and beautiful console applications - is trying to change that.
This talk will cover the fundamentals of console-based applications, how they work, and how you can use Spectre.Console to give you superpowers.
Patrik is a GitHub Star, Microsoft MVP, and open-source contributor who has been a professional programmer for 16 years. He's probably best known as the creator of the Cake build system and Spectre.Console, a library that makes it easy to build beautiful console applications in .NET. Apart from C#, he likes to contribute to open-source, DevOps, and Rust (the programming language).
This session was recorded at Swetugg Stockholm 2023, Swetugg is run by a group of volunteers with different IT backgrounds with a common denominator: A passion for creating good software and better software developers, no matter if you are just starting your journey or have been writing code since the beginning of unix time.

[@nogiecb]

Thx Patrik for presentation. It looks amazing :)

[@hasmich]

I've just used Spectre.Console in my project to parse arguments and present the progress of a long-running async operation instead of printing "Please wait...". It was the first time I've used it and just loved how easy and well-thought the API is. Matched it with IProgress interface and the experience was delightful. I wanted to learn more so ended up here. Thank you Patrik!

[@gp5381]

awesome, is the CLI slides code available online? so cool

[@csabaczcsomps7655]

Amazing, he make console to work almost as worpad.

[@__hannibaalbarca__]

I have my own in C++, but if I knew yours , I ll not make mein, waste too much time . NOW I GOING TO MAKE IT FOR C AND ASM.

[@nccnm]

How to create a presentation like this one?

[@vbachris]

i think he just made a dotnet console app and used his library. also fullscreened the terninal

[@laughingvampire7555]

dude, use sixel to show your picture

[@deverse]

Dotnet agggg