Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)

This TUI looks pretty, but I cannot imagine situation, when I would actually use it and be ready to pay for it. Probably I am not living in a right environment for it. But in my experience, either people are happy with something truly minimalistic or they try to please a user with GUI right away.

For example, YouTube link in the article showed a possibility to display table with highlighting cells. Why would I need that as TUI? Probably if I want to navigate through table with highlighting active cell I would also need a bunch of other stuff and eventually I would need a proper GUI.

The use case is something like medical billing entry where people are trained to know all of the billing codes and they still use an AS400 green screen console.

The employees work by keyboard shortcuts and are extremely efficient, and every time someone tries to replace the AS400 with a modern web app, their productivity drops 100x.

It’s the same scenario as a vim/emacs wizard vs a slick looking GUI that doesn’t have keyboard shortcuts.