I don't think that's true, because it appears to me that the upswing in new TUI programs predates Claude Code's takeoff.
Claude Code uses Ink, a react library in javascript for UI. The upswing is probably stuff like this making it super easy to write a TUI.
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Claude Code uses Ink, a react library in javascript for UI. The upswing is probably stuff like this making it super easy to write a TUI.