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Screen is a terminal renderer written in pure PHP designed to build rich text-based user interfaces without relying on external dependencies or native code. It interprets and processes ANSI escape sequences to correctly render text content with formatting in a virtual terminal buffer. Initially created for Solo for Laravel to manage processes with complex ANSI operations, Screen can now be integrated into any PHP application. Key features include comprehensive ANSI support, Unicode handling, buffer management, and a robust testing suite for accurate rendering validation.

soloterm/screen: A terminal renderer written in pure PHP.

That’s cool. I heard about TUI’s in a recent Oxide and Friends podcast episode.
Of course, they were talking about one being Rust based, but as a PHP dev, this is something I’d actually use if I needed a decent CLI output beyond what Yii2 provides.

What is the surprise? If a half-baked language built in some days by one dude can run (badly) the entire internet, why would not PHP?
It is just too bad PHP is not fun how it used to be in the past, where <code>&quot;1 monkey&quot; + &quot;2 cars&quot; == &quot;3 woman&quot;</code> returned <code>true</code>.