OpenTUI
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 2, 2025first mention
Oct 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There is some really cool work to port opencode's underlying opentui to Node.js”
“OpenTUI's architect is more modern”
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“built an entire custom TUI backend that supports a good subset of HTML/CSS”
“Their backend, OpenTUI [^2], is a large part of this”
Caveats and dissent
“Migrating my screenwriting software[0] from OpenTUI to Roc”
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Also written as opentui. Data: opentui.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“Migrating my screenwriting software[0] from OpenTUI to Roc”
“It uses OpenTUI which is build in Zig”
“opencode 's opentui library”
“There is some really cool work to port opencode's underlying opentui to Node.js”
“OpenTUI's architect is more modern”
“Could I use OpenTUI Core with this?”
“Anomaly, which builds OpenCode + OpenTUI”
“especially compared to https://github.com/anomalyco/opentui”
“Opencode wrote their own tui library in zig”
“an in-house framework (OpenTUI) written in zig+solidjs”
“built an entire custom TUI backend that supports a good subset of HTML/CSS”
“Powered by opentui”
“Their backend, OpenTUI [^2], is a large part of this”