alt Hacker News> TUIs don't need to follow any OS guidelines, cross-platform GUIs always look bad outside of the "main" platform.
TUIs look bad everywhere, so that's strictly worse
> TUIs don't need to follow any OS guidelines, cross-platform GUIs always look bad outside of the "main" platform.
TUIs look bad everywhere, so that's strictly worse
TUIs would be great if they didn't have to render all text the same size, for me that's the main win with GUIs, you have total freedom with what you can do with your pixels.
I would definitely be pro minimalist unicode-character-themed GUIs for what it's worth. Where every graphical primitive is basically a unicode character, without the restriction on font size.