alt Hacker NewsLike the idea, but this is definitely Unicode and not ASCII. It's hard to believe someone finished a piece of this length but still misunderstood, especially when some examples have emoji in them. Alternately, they chose a misleading name on purpose. Why? Someone mentioned TUI, which sidesteps the issue entirely.
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batisteo • today at 7:46 AM
I totally agree. It's called Plain Text.
kmoser • yesterday at 8:13 PM
You're technically right, but I think that's a minor quibble. They could have indeed limited it to ASCII (7-bit if you really want to be a purist) and everything would still work just as well.
It kind of makes sense if you relate it to ASCII art, which is very often not ASCII for similar reasons. The naming evokes that concept for me at least. Naming is hard in general, I'm sure they tried to find a name that they thought worked best.
I agree that "TUI" is a better fit though. But not TUI-driven-development, more like TUI-driven-design, followed by using the textual design as a spec (i.e. spec-driven development) to drive GUI implementation via coding agents.