An alternate FrontEnd using Lanterna to draw to the terminal

[non]

I think this might be a good alternate rendering system for Ammonite:

https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna

[lihaoyi]

This would be great =D It can easily be done as a third party library using load.ivy and then activated using frontEnd() = .... I probably won't work on it, having struggled a bit with Lanterna before, but I'm open to someone else doing it and seeing how it goes.

[photex]

Could/Would this enable Ammonite-Shell on windows?

[lihaoyi]

You can already use ammonite without the custom frontend, just using JLine. I dont know Lanterna enough to say how useful it would be

[photex]

But that's working as a shell replacement? I use Windows about half the time and was excited to run it under ConsoleZ only to get an error about there not being a /dev/tty

[lihaoyi]

Not sure, you'll have to try it out and let the people on #119 know!

[lihaoyi]

Closing as Wishlist for now