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Why??? TUIs are the best kind of UI. They run anywhere and don't siphon your system resources like garbage Electron apps.
And you can run it over SSH on servers.
Who said anything about electron?
It's just an easy thing to contrast against.
Electron is one of the slowest, clunky, memory-hogging ways to have a UI, and TUIs are the exact opposite. I don't care if
(name of company that ships Electron slop here)can ship your ~~software~~ webpage masquerading as software to more systems more easily. If your messaging "app" has input lag when I type something, it's a dogshit experience.Of course, there are ways to ship GUIs that aren't all of the things wrong with Electron, but comparing TUIs with those is less interesting and more a question of if the person likes to live in their terminal or not.
I just don't like tuis. I think they're clunky and usually not well implemented.
That's fine. I'm sure there are some sub-par TUIs out there. I've seen pretty great TUIs, especially the ones written in Rust (because of the excellent TUI lib they have).
GUIs are fine too (as long as they don't use Electron lol).
I'm open to changing my views. What TUIs do you think are great?
Nice!
Well, my favorite is Helix -- a text editor. But it's a TUI in the same way that
vimis a TUI, and being that it's a text editor, you're likely to have very strong opinions about whatever your current favorite editor is. Which is totally fine. I'm not looking to start any editor wars.Here are some others:
I use way more than just those. If you do find that some TUIs may be useful, there are a bunch more here. If not, I'm still interested in what behaviors you find off-putting about TUIs. Maybe I can incorporate that feedback for TUIs that I write :)