alt Hacker NewsIMHO the rise of TUIs is heavily correlated with the near-abandonment of professional quality graphical interfaces.
If there was a powerful, information dense, configurable docking/tiling, multi-application-composing GUI framework (all things a good terminal can do) then yes, build everything in that. I’d love to see it.
Until then, TUIs are vastly better than another Electron app or Mac app using UI frameworks that are trying their hardest to look and act like basic phone apps.
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Nailed it. As the blog post says, GUI’s aren’t normally written for nerds. They exist, but it’s not normal.
So even professional tools all follow industry design and product trends which are too simplistic, don’t give you the info you need, and are optimized for abstract brand design or chasing metrics for the company, and not optimized for “how do I let my user accomplish their task as fast as possible”
Yeah, I feel the same. Most modern GUIs waste so much space and hide actions behind hamburger menus – TUIs just get out of my way and let me work fast. I’ll take a well‑made TUI over a sluggish Electron app any day.