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

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331 points willm | 2 comments | 11 Aug 24 12:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bogdan-lab ◴[11 Aug 24 17:00 UTC] No.41217590[source]▶
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.

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1. justinclift ◴[12 Aug 24 01:18 UTC] No.41220427[source]▶
Proper GUI's are nice and all, until you need to do the same thing over an ssh connection.

Sometimes that works ok (ie forwarding X on a high bandwidth connection), but other times the proper GUI acts like a complete pig. :(

A text based GUI sounds like it might be the best of both worlds.

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2. arminiusreturns ◴[12 Aug 24 17:12 UTC] No.41226849[source]▶
greybeard nix admin here: I agree People have forgotten way too many of the lessons we learned in Ops Companies like to slap "agile" and "devops" labels on things, but I see the same old fights... (biased because I hate gui-ninjas)