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embedding-shape • today at 10:39 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Maybe not, but they do sit on opposite end of an axis looking something like:

    TUI that runs on any OS |----------------| TUI without any compatibility mess
You really can't have both at the same time, either you have great compatibility (which will be a mess), or you don't, to varying degree of course.

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Almondsetat • today at 10:59 AM

Basically any OS can install any compliant terminal emulator, meaning the cases in which you really have to patch your TUI for another OS are few and infinitely more manageable than GUIs

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shevy-java • today at 12:53 PM

It depends. If the OS can run e. g. ncurses, you have access to quite a lot of software here, such as htop. Though, I am not sure if it works on windows; but I think it works on OSX. Windows is very strange.