Mordant 2.0

Mordant 2.0 is a complete rewrite that adds support for markdown rendering, animations, and renderable components like lists and tables. Specifying colors and styles can now be done through static members of the TextColors and TextStyles enums. You don’t need to pass around a TermColors instance everywhere; you just need to print the final strings with Terminal.print if you want the ANSI codes downsampled.

There’s still a lot I’d like to do before a stable release.

• Lots of docs two write, including an mkdocs site
• Multiplatform support. The biggest blocker here is the intellij-markdown dependency. I can contribute native support there if necessary.
• Better animation support, especially for periodic animations like spinners and progress bars. It would probably be helpful to add a DSL for progress updates that can animate a progress bar or spinner, automatically calculate time elapsed/remaining etc. This might be tricky on JS or Native. Maybe it would be best to add kotlinx.coroutines as a dependency rather than try to do concurrency manually.
• Automatically update detected terminal dimensions when the window is resized.
• Maybe get rid of Terminal.colors. It’s the equivalent of Mordant 1’s TermColors, but isn’t necessary if you use Terminal.println. We could simplify a few things if we got rid of it. If we did, you could still use regular println instead of the Terminal version, you would just need to pass your stings through Terminal.render if you want your ANSI codes downsampled.

If anyone can try out the alpha, I’d love to hear your feedback on API, implementation, features, or anything else. You can comment on this issue, start a conversation in the #clikt channel on the kotlinlang slack, or DM me on ASG or kotlinlang slack.

[jmfayard]

I can confirm it works, thanks a lot @ajalt

[ajalt]

Mordant 2.0.0-beta2 has been released, which includes macosX64 support (@jmfayard)