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

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331 points willm | 1 comments | 11 Aug 24 12:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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mikkelam ◴[11 Aug 24 16:47 UTC] No.41217448[source]▶
Why do software engineers care so much about TUI? I really don't get it. I love a good command line program. But TUI just doesn't appeal to me.
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electroly ◴[11 Aug 24 21:27 UTC] No.41219439[source]▶
There isn't much obvious benefit in using TUIs, but writing TUIs has a big upside: it's easier in most ways. It's trivially cross-platform, you don't have to make pixel-perfect GUIs (because it's impossible), you don't need icons or graphics (because you can't show graphics), etc.
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1. ofseed ◴[12 Aug 24 07:59 UTC] No.41222175[source]▶
That's the main reason. TUI programs can be created quickly, and they're mostly developer-oriented, so they just need to be useful enough and don't need to be optimized as much as a GUI program.