Using an iPad has inspired me to rethink things like terminal and CLUI is very close to ideas I’ve been wanting for work on for a long time. My idea originally

Using an iPad has inspired me to rethink things like terminal and CLUI is very close to ideas I’ve been wanting for work on for a long time. My idea originally came from using ssh on my iPad and thinking it would be cool if more native controls were used over RPC instead of text to display what was happening on the server. Then I could more easily navigate the responses and maybe even if there was more intelligent autocomplete which a UI on iOS could take advantage of. Or maybe interactive confirmations and stuff (similar to what was Demo’d). And also then provide an easy way to edit files using either a remote editor or a way to sync changes being done in a local editor. Kind of how vscode seems to do it (e.g. a remote service handling the work) The one thing a system like I’m describing would still need is the ability to switch from this rich interface back to the terminal when using things like tmux, curses, or vim/emacs because obviously those things still work well. But the cool thing was realizing that this would also be great on the desktop. Looked into some terminals like Hyper thinking maybe I could hack those up to get a proof of concept for myself, but can’t find the time. And obviously it wouldn’t work for the iPad where I really wanted it.