This may be beyond some people's comprehension, but where I work we're receiving huge amounts of push-back trying to move from green screen to Windows GUI apps.

This may be beyond some people's comprehension, but where I work we're receiving huge amounts of push-back trying to move from green screen to Windows GUI apps. Yes, really. We tried explaining this to a "modern" developer and it's like we were speaking a different language. They couldn't get it, at all. It works in a very different - and very keyboard-centric - way. Having to touch a mouse slows users down dramatically, and so they keep closing our "pretty" app and opening up another terminal session. Can you imagine using web apps without touching the mouse at all? Or even most GUI apps? And the speed... the time it takes to navigate from one screen to the next is milliseconds. They'll be typing three or four screens in advance. And they'll have four to six terminal sessions open. There's no GUI app that comes close, and I'm not sure it's even possible. So yes. Web as desktop is bad. Really bad. Backwards. Unusable. Broken. And the people who work on it can't even understand the problem - that user efficiency and speed are REALLY IMPORTANT. Until "modern" devs understand that sometimes the front-end of choice is "ncurses", we're going to continue to have lots and lots of problems.