Chatty is a pet-project I am creating to learn Rust while solving a problem that I face often. I will be on my desktop or in the terminal working while also having a conversation with someone in Messages. Constantly, I have to shift my focus to my phone, laptop, or the Messages app. Chatty is intended to fix that by providing a TUI into Messages.
Will Chatty ever get that far? Possibly not. Upon further investigation, it seems that Apple may have removed some of the AppleScript tie-ins that I planned on leveraging to send messages. It may be possible to send individual messages however advanced features such as group messages, editing, and so on may not be in the picture. At the bare miniumum, I plan to create "mock" backends to mimic the functionality (and also allow for testing).
The ratatui crate is used for the TUI. The overall
architecture follows the Flux
pattern and is heavily inspired by this rust IRC client
using both ratatui and the Flux pattern.
Under the Issues I track both issues in the code that I need to fix in the future as well as knowledge gaps where something worked, was required, etc. that I don't completely understand and want to revisit later.
I am always open to feedback and improving my code - this is meant to be an educational project after all! If you have any thoughts, code critiques, or questions please feel free to open an Issue!