The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

ftchd

man I want to know where their creativity comes from, it's like they've built an entire world with a story... but it's just a (highly regarded) collection of packages

neom

I don't understand what this is but I kinda want it. Is it kinda cool-retro-term + starship?

zabzonk

Please, a simple web page that tells me what this does, and why I should use it. Links to github have never done this for me.

WhyNotHugo

Somehow this whole ecosystem of tools always gives me a bad vibe, and I can't quite pinpoint why. All the demos and videos are applications with lots of stacked pop-ups/modal windows, and things moving around continuously. It all reminds me of what we typically see in computers in TV shows or sci-fi films. It just looks like a chaotic mess of things, and I get this really strong urge to just stay away from it all.

GaggiX

It took me too long to understand that this is just a TUI library for Go

jofzar

It's crazy how much this UI design is like future retro 2008 design.

abrinz

I've been building a coding agent ( https://github.com/abrinsmead/cogent ) on the previous version of bubble tea for the past few weeks and it has been nice to work with (though honestly I'm not touching much code). The biggest blocker I have is that I haven't been able to simultaneously support both mouse wheel scrolling and the ability to select text for copy and paste. I understand that this is a limitation of pretty much all terminals, but we have seen it solved in Claude Code. Maybe this new version has a solution.

mlazos

Maybe I’m getting old but I couldn’t tell if this was a joke or not. I think they should explain a little more like what these products actually do?

RS-232

“lipgloss”?

lithiumii

It's cute. My main complaint is I was expecting some real next-gen bubble tea.

wavemode

how exactly does the Charm corporation make money?

monster_truck

Branding aside, if I have to use -50% magnification to get to a readable text size, your text is far, far too large. Why is this website yelling at me Why is it so hard to figure out what any of this does? I just want some screenshots

otterley

We sure are putting a lot of investment into 1970s-era user interfaces! (That said, I do appreciate the artistic flair that went into their website.)

oefrha

Surprised huh v2 isn't included in this and there's no mention of it in the release announcement at all. Quite a few of my apps mix bubbletea/bubbles and huh in different parts of the app, and while they're typically separate and technically could coexist no problem, it would feel a bit weird. Plus huh is advertised as "can be integrated into a Bubble Tea application"; I'm not using it personally but it's surely used by some users. Anyone from charmbracelet here could comment on the situation?

jasongi

My favourite library from these folks is gum ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum ). The basic premise is simple - instead of using hardcoded variables or in addition/instead of using CLI flags, call gum and capture the STDOUT to get the selected input value(s). Great for turning a bash script into a TUI, uses these libraries under the hood. I find the pattern of showing interactive TUI if required options/flags are omitted much nicer than showing an error/help output.

sanex

I don't know what I would build with these but I'll think of something because they're so awesome.

beart

I love this design language to death. I know a lot of engineers prefer a no-frills, straight to the point readme (as reflected in these comments), and I get that. But I also don't want to live in a world made out of nothing but boxes. It feels a bit like visiting Fallingwater and complaining that there are no arrows pointing to the bathroom.

oDot

Shameless related plug for my recent project Trolley, which lets you package a TUI as a desktop app, for your non-technical users or otherwise: https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

bikelang

Stoked to see this! I’ve been using bubble tea and all its accoutrements on various little hobby projects for the past few years. Love the ergonomics and aesthetics and can’t wait to try out v2!

mvdtnz

God I hate this industry