Show HN: Runal – A text-based creative coding environment for the terminal

5 points by xvrgdrt 19 hours ago

Hello HN!

Just wanted to share a small project I've been working for the last few months.

It's a tool called Runal, a text-based creative coding environment that runs in the terminal. It works similarly as processing or p5js but it does all the rendering as text. And it can either be scripted with JavaScript or used as a Go package. It's open-source and cross-platform (linux, macOS, windows).

It seems to me that text/ascii-art aesthetics are really popular in creative coding communities, so I though it would make sense to create a tool that runs on a platform which can render text only.

It's still rough on the edges, but I'd gladly welcome any feedback!