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Why do you think there is not a sweetspot between cli and gui?
It's called emacs
Ratatui – App Showcase
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Charm was my introduction into the world of ssh apps which prompted me to create https://pico.sh SSH apps serve a similar UX to web apps which I just think is a great idea for many use cases. Needing to install a cli tool just to upload some files is tedious when you can just use rsync, sftp, piping, or even sshfs
What’s an SSH app vs a terminal app?
A terminal app is running during an interactive shell session. A ssh app basically allows you to SSH into the app, without ever ending up in the shell.
A fun example of this is https://www.terminal.shop/
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#63I'm really waiting for the TUI web browser. That would let me live completely in the terminal. Is anyone working on this? With the speed terminals are and support for graphics through things like sixel and shaders I'd love to have a browser even if I couldn't do videos. Even if it was like viewing most pages in reader mode. I'm not sure some big companies would be happy about that though since it likely would mean yo…
> I'm really waiting for the TUI web browser. That would let me live completely in the terminal.
You can already do this, since the 90s: Lynx[1] and w3m[2] have both existed for more than three decades at this point.
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#64Nice. It would be also cool if they add 'cargo install %tool%' commands for each one.
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#65I've seen lots of TUIs lately, why is that? What is the renewed interest? The only places I know of is Awesome TUIs [0] and terminaltrove [1] I can also see that Ratatui has an awesome list too [2]. [0] https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis [1] https://terminaltrove.com/ [2] https://github.com/ratatui-org/awesome-ratatui
The main reason for me is simple keyboard navigation. I don't want to click through links and menus, I don't want to use the mouse at all. I think that's also why tiling window managers are popular again.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s an SSH app vs a terminal app?
A terminal app is running during an interactive shell session. A ssh app basically allows you to SSH into the app, without ever ending up in the shell. A fun example of this is https://www.terminal.shop/
Any terminal app can be an “ssh app”. There isn’t really a distinction.
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#67Some of the most interesting projects here have the worst installation stories.It's sort of tilting at windmills to not acknowledge that people are going to mostly install through package managers for their platform by advertising it as such. I'm not suggesting there's anything wrong with building from source. On the contrary, I think it's fantastic as many targets are supported here as there are! I think it's a sham…
Rust, following Go's footsteps, has made it very easy to distribute-and-compile from source. They've taken all the pain out of the compiling-from-source pipeline, through "go build" or "cargo build" Meanwhile, distributions sometimes maintain their plodding rate at package updates (usually handled by distribution volunteers, not the original program's developers), which was developed in an era when building from sour…
The reason I was put off by Rust was compiling from source. I experimented with a ports collection package management system similar to those used in BSD a while ago, and every time a Rust program needed to be compiled, I could go to sleep; no, basically rendering the system unusable. It was like the dependency abyss of NPM combined with the worst possible compile times, even worse than C++.
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#68I'm really waiting for the TUI web browser. That would let me live completely in the terminal. Is anyone working on this? With the speed terminals are and support for graphics through things like sixel and shaders I'd love to have a browser even if I couldn't do videos. Even if it was like viewing most pages in reader mode. I'm not sure some big companies would be happy about that though since it likely would mean yo…
> I'm really waiting for the TUI web browser. That would let me live completely in the terminal. You can already do this, since the 90s: Lynx[1] and w3m[2] have both existed for more than three decades at this point. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m
ELinks is the TUI browser I've used since .... forever.
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#69Wow, I did not know that some of my most loved apps in terminal are written in Rust: yazi, atuin, bottom, isn't fzf also written in Rust? And today I learned about some more I want to explore: csvlens, bandwhich, dua, material, oha.
I find these apps so increadibly useful, I almost want to learn Rust :D
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#70Would be more and more useful to have terminal CLI utilities like running a given prompt or agent over a folder. I'd use that for auditing legal compliance for some projects.