# FrankenTUI 5 Hacker News commenters recommended FrankenTUI and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Rust library for building terminal user interfaces, praised for its mathematically heavy design. Critics report subtle breakage, including no text selection or scrollbar interaction. ## Why people recommend it - Mathematically heavy design for TUIs (1 comments): "most mathematically heavy design for creating TUIs ever conceived" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888922)) - Ridiculously good Rust TUI (1 comments): "Their Franktui is a ridiculously good rust tui." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146975)) - Could solve Claude Code's problems (1 comments): "this would solve Claude Code's current problems" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987321)) - Enthusiastic praise from commenters (1 comments): "This is phenomenal stuff man." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010045)) ## What people warn about - Subtle bugs throughout the interface (2 comments): "Once I tried interacting with it, everything is broken in a subtle way." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987023)) "It'll be still broken as it'll be claude bugs + frankentui bugs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988096)) - No text selection or scrollbar (1 comments): "it's impossible to select any text or interact with a scrollbar" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994625)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Ratatui](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ratatui.md): 57 recommend - [Bubble Tea](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bubble-tea.md): 37 recommend - [Textual](https://hackerapproved.com/p/textual.md): 34 recommend - [Turbo Vision](https://hackerapproved.com/p/turbo-vision.md): 26 recommend - [Ink](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ink.md): 13 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "FrankenTUI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/frankentui/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).