alt Hacker NewsSorry, no.
I don't want to forward a whole desktop environment just because I want to use a small application I have written for myself.
TUIs are much more portable, easier on eyes, can be information dense, and resistant to lassiez-faire UI library changes on platforms. They don't need GPUs to render, megabytes of RAM to run, great amounts of bandwidth to access from afar.
I'll write a library for the functionality, and will slap a TUI on top. You want a GUI, write it yourself. Everything is GPLv3 licensed. You can do whatever you want as long as you respect the license.
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messh • today at 3:12 PM
TUIs also live where the rest of the interesting stuff happens, in the terninal. They don't force you to move to a different env
> They don't need GPUs to render, megabytes of RAM to run
They do these days, because you still need a terminal emulator and those are then basically GUIs in themselves. Ain't the 80s anymore :^)