The principle is the problem. When your program is a TUI, it means stdout is useless. The tweet I quoted illustrates this problem. If you do both printf debugg

The principle is the problem. When your program is a TUI, it means stdout is useless. The tweet I quoted illustrates this problem. If you do both printf debugging and use a TUI debugger, you will not be able to see the output from the printf statements. You want to draw a GUI but you're using a text stream to issue commands to the terminal to draw text and color regions of the screen - while at the same time hiding the std output buffer (and losing the ability to select and copy/paste the text being drawn). As if drawing text and colored boxes is so fundamentally difficult it can't be done any other way. As if handling shortcuts in a GUI program is so fundamentally difficult that it's easier to do it in a TUI.