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greatgibyesterday at 9:54 AM0 repliesview on HN

> Next: TUIs work over SSH connections. If you need a user interface on prod, it’s going to be a TUI.

With X based apps, you can run GUI apps through SSH. That was all the rage for light remote access to resource hungry desktop app a few decades ago...

But that being said, in my opinion, a few limited TUI apps are useful, but most of them nowadays are young "cool kids" that wants to be cool by using "terminal apps" without really having really embraced the spirit of the terminal and commands.

For them, using GUI apps would look like a basic computer user and not an expert nerd.

The magic of the terminal, is not that you run things in almost black and white with low graphics, but that you were supposed to use "simple" commands that you can scripts and pipe one through each others at will.