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globular-toast • today at 6:56 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

I wish we had a "cool" GUI toolkit. GUIs are way better at this stuff. Adding point and click is so close to being a GUI, the only possible reason this is a TUI is fashion.


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jprd • today at 7:30 PM

How are GUIs "way better at this stuff"? I can't see it, but would like to understand how you feel that a GUI can improve on the management of automated processes at scale.

jswelker • today at 7:09 PM

Idk if you are managing k8s stuff you are probably in a terminal already. Staying in a terminal is nice. Plus having persistent multiplexer sessions is a big deal in locked down corporate environments.

I appreciate the tui.

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ellg • today at 7:18 PM

I've been using https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component

Imgui is also good for this

bijowo1676 • today at 7:14 PM

I think X11 is the GUI version of terminal interface

we need more experiments with X11 interfaces

_def • today at 7:11 PM

How would a "cool" GUI Toolkit look like for you?

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esafak • today at 7:09 PM

That's what the web is for: https://ui.shadcn.com/