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Hard disagree. Make more TUIs! TUIs have downsides like accessibility, poor mouse support, but work really well if you focus on keyboard input. It is a better/faster input mode to begin with, especially for power users, but also for average people; you'd be surprised at how much more user-friendly an arrow-keys driven UI can be vs modern web interfaces. I've been building my own TUI framework [1] and getting amazing…
Every time I use Claude Code, I'm wondering why the hell I'm regressing to the level of a machine. I paste an image that I want fixed, and I don't see the preview of it. I can't cut or edit text somewhere in the middle of a long sentence like in a normal user interface. I can't visualize any helpful graphics, not even Latex. I'm forced to interface like a machine when I'm a human being.
Why can't developers understanding that GUIs and TUIs both have their usage, it just depends on the task?
I'm fine to use vim over ssh into a server, just don't force me to edit fine typography with it.
Hard disagree. Make more TUIs! TUIs have downsides like accessibility, poor mouse support, but work really well if you focus on keyboard input. It is a better/faster input mode to begin with, especially for power users, but also for average people; you'd be surprised at how much more user-friendly an arrow-keys driven UI can be vs modern web interfaces. I've been building my own TUI framework [1] and getting amazing…
GUI programs can also use the keyboard.
Me: you exist so I can launch iTerm2, Chrome, and VS Code
MacOS: oh, my god
I can't ever imagine using walled garden graphics api in 2026. Particularly for work tooling
Counter proposal: stop making gui, ONLY make TUI. + seamless cli integration + network portable + graphics (!!) with modern emulators + always themable + scriptable + works with any navigation modality + you can copy & paste entire segments of your window easily + easy to consistently theme + did i mention entirely network/os transparent? + blazing fast tongue-in-cheeck mostly, but i assure tfa, the tui serves useful…
My life is spent inside terminal and Emacs. Every time I reach for the mouse, I consider it a major fail. Like: big time failure.
Now at times I'll use the mouse: for example when I'm designing a 3D part to then 3D print to fix something around the house. In that case a mouse makes sense. Or for gaming: a mouse makes sense.
But for most of what I do, even just moving my hand away from the home row position to reach for the mouse is a massive fail.
Counter proposal: stop making gui, ONLY make TUI. + seamless cli integration + network portable + graphics (!!) with modern emulators + always themable + scriptable + works with any navigation modality + you can copy & paste entire segments of your window easily + easy to consistently theme + did i mention entirely network/os transparent? + blazing fast tongue-in-cheeck mostly, but i assure tfa, the tui serves useful…
TUIs and GUIs are both mostly bad for the same reason, you have to learn a new “language” of interaction for with each program, finding the buttons and figuring out how the designer thought the information should be hidden from you. Stop building user interfaces in general. A command line interface is best. If someone doesn’t want to learn how to talk to the computer, they can ask a chatbot to drive the CLI for them.…
> Stop Making TUIs No, I don't think I will :) It's great for admin tools, alongside CLIs. It's portable, it's fast, it's discoverable, it has zero bullshit effects, it's as secure as my shell, it's efficient. And what is this point about agents making it easy to generate GUIs ? They are equally good (if not better) at generating TUIs using any of the great frameworks for this.
> It's portable Not really? > it's fast It's not - most terminals are ridiculously slow, and each TUI framework requires its own hacks to do partial "repaints" using ANSI escapes, because clearing and redrawing the entire screen (yes, just a screen of monospace text!) is unworkable. > it's discoverable With no ergonomic way to build a menu bar, display hints/tooltips, or even support modified keyboard shortcuts well…