soft_ratatui

Software rendering backend for ratatui. No GPU required. TUI everywhere.

Fast, portable, no-bloat. Powered by cosmic-text.

• Optimized for speed, generally faster than running ratatui inside a terminal. 120+ fps on normal workloads.
• Full Unicode + font fallback.

Features

• Unicode Font rendering with cosmic-text.
• Portable pixel rasterizer.
• egui integration provided by egui_ratatui. Have a TUI inside your GUI!
• bevy game engine example
• WASM compatible, deploy your ratatui application on the web!

TODO

• Colored Emojis
• More Examples
• no-std support

License

Dual-licensed under MIT or Apache 2.0. Pick whichever suits you.

Status

Mostly complete, comments and suggestions are appreciated.