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Kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library

Who didn't once want to roll their own user interface toolkit?

For each ocean tile you have to calculate a couple of sines and exponentials - it's not the end of the world for a modern CPU, but it does become problematic in my case, because the game is rendered entirely on the server, players are just SSH terminals. If you always render an entire frame from scratch, you can simply iterate through all of the cells and replace their foreground color to gray (or do some kind of interpolation if you want to have a fade in effect or something). One of the reasons why I've eventually abandoned my custom tui-ui project was that I was getting increasingly worried that the overhead of managing trees and subtrees and selectors and surfaces and whatnot will be greater than any potential gains I could win by avoiding the diffing.

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