Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Droeftoeter, a Terminal Coding Toy
This is a small coding toy I made for fun. I think there are a few interesting ideas buried in it — curious what others think.
Droeftoeter is a terminal-based coding toy designed for developers interested in exploring experimental programming ideas. Created as a personal project, it offers a compact environment for coding experimentation. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi hi, I made a little Halloween themed game this week to show off my new terminal. You can play it in the browser. at https://joel.tools/halloween/ Two years ago, I started building an experiment tracking tool for myself as I have been venturing into ai research, and it has morphed into a terminal with rich content support and a bunch of fancy features. https://github.com/JoelEinbinder/snail/ I can't recommend people start using snail for important stuff today, but I think the game is fun and it shows off a lot of the capabilities of the…
2023 · joel.tools · its alternatives →
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A terminal renderer written in pure PHP. Contribute to soloterm/screen development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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It's based on the jediterm library developed for IDEs, but it can also be put to work as a standalone terminal emulator with tabs. The library has been around for more than 10 years, but I don't think anyone made a terminal emulator app from it?
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system. Contribute to AlexNisnevich/ECMAchine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · gausstoys.com · its alternatives →
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Top (DomTerm - a terminal emulator and console using DOM and JavaScript)
2018 · domterm.org · its alternatives →
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WebTerm Learn▲139Learn the terminal like a game — in a browser sandbox
Aug 2026 · learn.webterm.app · its alternatives →
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:robot: Introducing kids to coding with tiny virtual robots! - robotopia-x/robotopia
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learning numerical computing with notebooks for all ages. - eka-foundation/numerical-computing-is-fun
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal based bit manipulator in ncurses. Contribute to mellowcandle/bitwise development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal-based game engine for Go, built on top of Termbox - JoelOtter/termloop
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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an experimental 2D/3D game engine for the terminal - GitHub - andrewmd5/glyphion: an experimental 2D/3D game engine for the terminal
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · dfsch.org · its alternatives →
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A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects. - vinayak-mehta/present
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I wanted to share my very first (insignificant) project written in Go: a little CLI tool that displays messages with an animated bunny holding a sign. I wanted to learn Go and needed a small, fun project to get my hands dirty with the language and the process of building and distributing a CLI. I've built a similar tool in JavaScript before so I thought porting it would be a great learning exercise. This was a dive into Go's basics for me, from package structure and CLI flag parsing to building binaries for different platforms (never did that on my JS projects). I'm starting to…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations - peterbrittain/asciimatics
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · efounders.co · its alternatives →
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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.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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