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btbuildemtoday at 12:54 AM1 replyview on HN

The more you look into these trendy TUIs the worse it gets -- it's like the developers took the accumulation of all the worst practices since the dawn of programming, and wrapped it all into one unwieldy, overweight, under-performant gelatinous blob that threatens to collapse under its own weight.


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MBCooktoday at 1:19 AM

They’re not terminal UIs.

They’re attempts at pretending to have Windows (etc.) GUIs in a terminal.

Same stuff people made for DOS when Windows wasn’t common or good enough yet.

I’m not surprised they’re a disaster. Or built without understanding the abilities of the terminal they’re running on.

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