alt Hacker NewsWhat worries me is that TUI used to mean light on your hardware unless it's doing actual work that you demanded.
What's the reality with these new frameworks? Whenever I see one i worry that it renders at 144 Hz in a loop instead of redrawing only when something changes, for one. And let's not mention redrawing only the areas that have changed [1].
Should I ask about ram consumption too?
[1] ... which is why vi is the best editor to use over slow, unreliable links.
I don't really see how these terminal borders would make any of these issues worse? You can build a wasteful 144Hz TUI using only dots and spaces. There's a tiny bit of overhead for the extra commands, but everything else seems to be an implementation detail, no?