Raz Iacob: “Genuine question: what’s the appeal of TUIs? It feels like r…”

Raz Iacob @raz-iacob6d

Genuine question: what’s the appeal of TUIs? It feels like reinventing the GUI, just inside a terminal. What am I missing?

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J3ffJessie @J3ffJessie6d

Depends on how much time you spend in the terminal. A lot of developers who are strictly terminal devs and do everything there like TUI as they can just have it in the terminal with them.

phpete @phpete16d

For me: 1) usually less cluttered and simple 2) faster 3) I spend enough time in terminal so it feels natural

Ricardo Gomes @ricardogomes6d

They fit better in a terminal based workflow. It's easier to have tmux tabs for different "apps" that to have several uni-purpose apps opened. This probably has a similar target user set as the people that don't see the purpose of progressive web apps, better to use tabs on one…

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