Building a Terminal Text Editor: The View (Part 3)

Recap In Part 1 , I talked about the origin of this project, the early architectural decisions, and why I picked the GapBuffer with IBuffer as the contract for all future buffer implementations. In Part 2 , we got into the details of the Presenter, how it wires the components together, handles user input, manages state, and keeps the Model and View in sync. Now we can move on to the View. What is the View? The View is the component that the user interacts with directly. All user inputs are collected and passed to the Presenter, the View doesn't decide what to do with them. It is also responsible for rendering the text the user types, along with any warnings, statistics like word count, and whether the file is unsaved. The View doesn't calculate any of this, it just displays whatever the Presenter sends it. Another example of how all three parts of the Model-View-Presenter separate concerns. Why FTXUI instead of ncurses In the proof of concept testing, I used ncurses, the de facto stand