Rewrite to use Charm ecosystem

[makew0rld]

This is just an idea, and not something coming anytime soon, if at all.

The current UI framework, cview, would be replaced by Bubble Tea and other projects from @charmbracelet.

Doing this would qualify for increasing Amfora's major version number (Amfora 2), as it would be a complete visual redesign and would break themes and probably some other UI config options.

For

• Bubble Tea uses The Elm Architecture pattern, as opposed to cview's callback structure
  • I haven't used it yet, but the Elm architecture looks preferable: simpler, easier to write
  • And most importantly, I think it would reduce bugs caused by different callbacks interfering with each other (#281 #283 among others), as the whole program would act like a single-threaded state machine
  • There would still be multi-threaded code for things like network requests, but it would have to check back in to the single-threaded renderer before it could display anything, which should prevent most (all?) async render issues
  • Would clean up and simplify code that deals with re-rendering everything, like for resizing. So it would solve #276
• All current rendering issues would be gone, as they were caused by cview bugs
  • Maybe #183 wouldn't be solved, needs testing but ultimately it doesn't matter
  • It's possible I could fix these issues in cview myself, but when I've looked into the code in the past I had a hard time understanding it, let alone debugging it
• Probably conforms to semver better than cview, allowing for easier upgrades
• UI components would mostly be made by hand, allowing for more control and less fighting with cview
  • Would require less hacking to do something like #197, which was a lot of hacking and work to do, and is still an annoying section to come back to and maintain if needed
  • Other code for tabs like "saving" and "applying" the bottombar works fine now but is hacky and would be avoided by this

Against

• The rendering issues might get solved by the cview dev in the future
• It would be a lot of work, basically a complete rewrite of all the UI code (code in display/) which is the bulk of Amfora
• And arguably for small gain. While the problems it would solve (listed above) are annoying, they don't really matter for most usage, and things work well overall
• Possibly less stable API than cview since still in v0
• UI components would be more work to write initially, as there aren't premade ones like modals etc
• UI keyboard focus flow would likely require significant extra code, because that isn't handled by Bubble Tea
  • So keeping track of what's in focus, and then moving focus when modals are exited, tab key is pressed, etc, would all need to be written

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Honestly, a major part of why I've written this up is because the @charmbracelet stuff seems super cool and I feel like I need to use it. I will write something smaller using it from scratch, as a way to try it out, and maybe to get it out of my system 😉. For now this will just remain another far off idea I wanted to record just in case.

[makew0rld]

This will not be happening as Amfora is in maintenance mode.