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I am on the same boat: just can't see why someone would want to turn the terminal into what is basically a GUI with just poorer graphis?! Am I completely missi

• cwalv 4y ago
  It's a least common denominator thing: there a places where you can easily run a terminal app but not a browser/electron, which are probably the next level up in the portability/fidelity tradeoff.
• BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  - you don't need compiled dependencies - you may work mostly in the terminal and want to fire a quick tool: dev is a lot of that so it's great for this use case - it's cross platform - it works with no X so it works with ssh - it doesn't eat a lot of resources - it's fast to launch - you usually already have a cli entry point, so this is a natural next step. The quick script becomes really nice - it's very constrained, so devs have to focus on the most important things which makes the UI usually better than usual - it's a common denominator so you can generate web ui and native ui form that - TUI have naturally good keyboard workflow for free - it's just really cool
  • stjohnswarts 4y ago
    - very low bandwidth