alt Hacker NewsOnly if the program is designed to be safe to run in parallel. Which can be done with desktop apps too - and they'll run more efficiently as well, as the windows share memory.
Only if the program is designed to be safe to run in parallel. Which can be done with desktop apps too - and they'll run more efficiently as well, as the windows share memory.
GUIs have their benefits. You can make much richer UIs with much nicer UX when you're not limited to a grid and whatever paradigm you can hack into the ancient tty stuff, and when you have access to raw keyboard scans.
But I don't think I've run into a TUI that I couldn't have multiple instances of.