alt Hacker News> Stop Making TUIs
No, I don't think I will :)
It's great for admin tools, alongside CLIs.
It's portable, it's fast, it's discoverable, it has zero bullshit effects, it's as secure as my shell, it's efficient.
And what is this point about agents making it easy to generate GUIs ? They are equally good (if not better) at generating TUIs using any of the great frameworks for this.
> It's portable
Not really?
> it's fast
It's not - most terminals are ridiculously slow, and each TUI framework requires its own hacks to do partial "repaints" using ANSI escapes, because clearing and redrawing the entire screen (yes, just a screen of monospace text!) is unworkable.
> it's discoverable
With no ergonomic way to build a menu bar, display hints/tooltips, or even support modified keyboard shortcuts well across platforms? I don’t think it is.
> it's as secure as my shell
Extraordinarily insecure, in other words.
> it's efficient
As above.