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> CLIs have purposes for which they’re irreplaceable. Building a CLI is almost always a good idea. Building a TUI almost never is.
You're also arguing for CLIs which are absolutely great. But TUIs provide none of the composability of CLIs nor the malleability of GUIs
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messh • today at 3:09 PM
If you use the terminal a lot then TUIs keep you there wo the need to manage yet a other window in the OS. For e.g. you can run nvim in another pane in tmux.
israrkhan • today at 3:10 PM
Maybe compatibility goes away a with TUIs. But portability, speed, remote access, and less resource usage are still key advantages.
It's a fine point if made in isolation, but TUIs tend to be more technical and useful simply because they require using a terminal at all. GUIs tend to be made for the non-technical iPhone audience.
So while I'm not fundamentally opposed to graphics, I'm absolutely opposed to the "average user" culture surrounding it. I don't care about the "normal person", I don't want "user experiences" that hide the computer, I want all of the computer's primitives exposed so that I have full control.
https://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/