alt Hacker NewsIt is much easier to quickly generate a usable tui for simple monitoring and management than a usable gui. Go + lipgloss + bubble tea and a single prompt will give you whatever you need in a minute or two - much faster to compile and no platform specific issues. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I do a lot of work in the terminal still and I’d much rather stay in that context then open up yet another window
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This used to not be the case - we've regressed. In the distant past you could just drag a couple of widgets onto a form and update them from a timer.
It’s very easy to do the same thing in a variety of ways and simple guis are basically solved by Claude/codex for almost anything.
Can get a GUI with the same prompt if you tell it to use TCL/tk instead of Go + Charm stuff
Not anymore it isn't. "Claude, make this a web app".
> I can’t speak for anyone else, but I do a lot of work in the terminal still and I’d much rather stay in that context then open up yet another window
I do a lot of work in the terminal and that's exactly why I'd rather have other windows to the side so that my terminal can stay exactly focused on what I'm doing there. Those other windows might also be terminals, but I have a big screen, and I want to make use of it to see things all at once. A GUI gives far more flexibility for arranging those multiple views.
I've sat with coworkers taking two to twelve keystrokes to flip between things that I just have side by side in separate IDE windows, browser windows, or tabs... or can switch between with a single click instead of those keystrokes.