Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Stop Making TUIs

sockpuppet.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 579 posts

Re: Stop Making TUIs

#53

Post by fragmede »

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #31
JoshTriplett wrote: post #10

You know what's awesome about TUIs? They live in a tab in my terminal. 95% of the time, my system has three windows open: terminal, browser, Signal. Please, make more TUIs and web apps, so they can live in my terminal or my browser.

I built "ssh sshfighter.com" recently, enjoy!

Mine's funky.nondeterministic.computer

Re: Stop Making TUIs

#54

Post by walrus01 »

boxed wrote: post #20
JoshTriplett wrote: post #10

You know what's awesome about TUIs? They live in a tab in my terminal. 95% of the time, my system has three windows open: terminal, browser, Signal. Please, make more TUIs and web apps, so they can live in my terminal or my browser.

Couldn't you then just vibe code some window manager app that throws a bunch of your stuff into a tabbed window? Seems like the same thing.

> Couldn't you then just vibe code some window manager app

My reaction to this is basically about the same as the fictional Ivan Chesnokov

(beware, crude language, profanity, etc)

https://m1-garand-rifle.com/ivan-chesnokov.html

Re: Stop Making TUIs

#56

Post by anthonj »

"I built my first serious Mac application"

I will just stop here. No hates for macs, but your typical cli/tui software devoper is concerned about making their software run on almost anything with an actual os. As soon as I see references to specific operating systems or platform specific libraries my bullshit meter goes off.

I was expecting an article about methology and tooling to develop guis, got an apple fan telling stories about ai use.

Re: Stop Making TUIs

#57

Post by skeledrew »

danpalmer wrote: post #6
jmorenoamor wrote: post #5

No. I like them.

What do you like about them? I disagree, but so many people seem to like them that I assume I'm missing something. The main one I've heard before is that they work nicely over SSH, but I assume there must be more?

It's easier to automate TUIs, since it's just text.

Re: Stop Making TUIs

#59

Post by alerighi »

To me TUI have a better user experience than graphical applications. And considering the amount of companies that are still using decades old AS/400 systems instead of new ERP system I'm probably not the only one to think it like this.

First, a TUI is usable with only the keyboard. Moving the mouse is a waste of time, and if you are using an application multiple hours a day, it can lead to being more productive.

Second, a TUI has no useless animations, elements, etc. It's not pretty, you have on the screen only the stuff you need to do your job, and you are not distracted by useless elements.

Third, a TUI works beautifully in a client/server world, where you have one central computer and dumb clients that connects to it, and the connection can be a simple serial connection as well as a network connection. It can be rendered even with an ESP32, making it suitable for embedded HMIs and all kind of computing scenarios.

Lastly, the user can choose the font, the colors, the size of the font that are best for him, usually a monospace font that it's surely better to read information multiple hours a day.

To me it's the opposite, GUI interfaces were born to make it intuitive to use a computer, but are not as efficient as TUI in terms of productivity.

Re: Stop Making TUIs

#60

Post by ammar_az »

I like to have my freedom in choosing what software I want to make/use, without anyone dictating what is better for me.

You like GUIs and want to build/use ones that works in MacOS, that's perfect go ahead and build as much GUIs as you want. However, this wouldn't work for me as I know how bad developing native cross-platform GUI applications is.

Post reply on HN