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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: 0.214s | 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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squigz ◴[12 Aug 24 04:08 UTC] No.41221102[source]▶
Because I don't need a resource-heavy GUI for something as simple as a music player.
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zokier ◴[12 Aug 24 06:45 UTC] No.41221748[source]▶
GUI is not intrinsically any more resource-heavy than TUI; ultimately you need to render stuff on screen somehow and get user input, and going through tty layer just is extra bloat.
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1. squigz ◴[12 Aug 24 12:29 UTC] No.41223635[source]▶
> GUI is not intrinsically any more resource-heavy than TUI

Okay well, maybe you should tell that to the GUI developers :P