I just want to chime to signal interest in "more than ASCII". In my case this would be the German umlauts (äöüßÄÖÜ).
I would love to introduce Decker as a vehicle for tiny tools at my workplace. The situation there is probably typical for enterprise offices: Windows, Microsoft Office, the only option for automation being Microsoft Power*. Another option would be Python, but this lacks a nice GUI and all-in-one appearance.
I am currently building a visual app for note taking and browsing.
This works on a hierarchy of note files, supported by an SQlite database for searching and arbitrary relationships. I use it on a small (5'', 320x240) display, connected to a Raspberry Pi 400, cyberdeck-style. The UI, implemented with PicoTUI, runs in a terminal window and can be operated by keyboard alone.
Decker-alike in this setup could mean that note files would be individual slides or whole decks of slides. A render engine would display a slide full screen in a terminal window, using only ANSI terminal characters for both widgets and even low-res images. Decker & Lil would provide widgets and scripting, similar what TurboVision & TurboPascal did back in the 90th.
