Rich Python library
Shares rank 7 of 14 Python libraries by recommenders
Python library for styled terminal output, favored for its Live display and by long-time users. Critics say it adds several megabytes of dependencies and layouts break on terminal resize.
Python library for styled terminal output, favored for its Live display and by long-time users. Critics say it adds several megabytes of dependencies and layouts break on terminal resize.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Respected work by its author
“Long time `rich` and `textual` user here, just wanted to say thanks”
Comment from 24 Dec 2025 in “Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal” “I've seen Will McGugan's work on textual and rich before”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker)” “thank you for making Rich and Textual”
Comment from 24 Dec 2025 in “Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal” Helped popularize Python terminal libraries
“The advent of libraries like Rich and others certainly helped”
Comment from 4 May 2026 in “Why TUIs Are Back” “I've seen Will McGugan's work on textual and rich before”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker)”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Large dependency footprint
“one of the major dependencies is Rich, which includes things like a 3600-entry mapping of string names to emoji”
Comment from 27 Dec 2025 in “How uv got so fast” “includes things like a 3600-entry mapping of string names to emoji”
Comment from 26 Dec 2025 in “How uv got so fast” “The end user pays several megabytes for this by default”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “We should all be using dependency cooldowns” Layout breaks on window resize
“It can't handle terminal window resize and the layout gets messed up”
Comment from 26 Mar 2026 in “Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66” “window resize wrecks UI layout”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch”
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See all 14 Python libraries, rankedWhat people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The advent of libraries like Rich and others certainly helped”
“the Live context manager in Rich is underrated for exactly this kind of use case”
“It can't handle terminal window resize and the layout gets messed up”
“window resize wrecks UI layout”
“I've seen Will McGugan's work on textual and rich before”
“one of the major dependencies is Rich, which includes things like a 3600-entry mapping of string names to emoji”
“includes things like a 3600-entry mapping of string names to emoji”
“thank you for making Rich and Textual”
“Long time `rich` and `textual` user here, just wanted to say thanks”
“The end user pays several megabytes for this by default”
“adapted from the Rich project's example code”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.