The Bombadil Terminal Experiment

Last week at Bug Bash 2026, I had a bunch of interesting discussions about testing non-web interfaces with Bombadil, our new property-based testing framework for user interfaces. One direction that I already wanted to explore is terminal user interfaces (TUIs), and the hallway discussions gave me a nudge to get going. I started hacking on the flight back home, and a few days later that embryo of a…