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scythetoday at 10:44 PM0 repliesview on HN

>Finally, I can think of one strong argument for TUIs: they’re cross-platform.

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>But remember: I’m not really building applications for other people to use. I’m building them for me.

Giant caveat to the whole argument and it's buried 80% of the way down. Granted, he alludes to that a little earlier, but if other people using your application are a completely irrelevant outcome, you're an unusual case.

I mean, sure, I make tiny one-offs, but those barely even have something you could call a CLI. I push as much complexity into command-line options and config files as possible.