alt Hacker NewsThe advantage of TUIs is that you get a low-fidelity browser UI that doesn’t need to be exposed to the internet, that can be run remotely via SSH, which doesn’t ship you megabytes of JavaScript, and which works equally well on everyone’s machine
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> doesn’t need to be exposed to the internet
[PWAs: Offline and background operation](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...)
> that can be run remotely via SSH
Fair
> which doesn’t ship you megabytes of JavaScript
Not required at all; that would be a decision the app makes and not inherent to the medium
> works equally well on everyone’s machine
Provided they're using a compatible terminal with a compatible color scheme that doesn't just make everything unreadable.
You can run a web UI locally, without exposing it to the public internet, and access it remotely via SSH.
> which works equally well on everyone’s machine
Why are you so sure it runs equally well on everyone's machine? Even big popular TUIs like Claude Code do not really accomplish this.
Don't forget about the speed and the keyboard-only navigation.