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Seeing the amount of y’all excited about the guification of the terminal makes me concerned. I get it, this is a reaction to the appifying the browser. Please
by asciimov 4y ago
Seeing the amount of y’all excited about the guification of the terminal makes me concerned. I get it, this is a reaction to the appifying the browser.
Please don’t turn to the terminal as a panacea for browsers. I don’t want my cli apps to suddenly be colorful or worse have css. Go back to making native apps, they are significantly better at doing interfaces than a terminal emulator.
/rant
- nixpulvis 4y agoExactly. Don't forget the UNIX philosophy. We build composable programs for the good of other use cases.
- robomartin 4y agoHaving just delivered a “quick” console-based app to run a hardware product we manufacture, I fully sympathize with your comment. I have been coding for about 40 years. I can’t even remember the number of advanced text-based applications I wrote way back when that was it. Full menus, trees, scrolling regions, pop-up dialogs, color, even mouse input when it became available. As they say, ‘been there, done that. I decided to go console-based this time to roll out something quickly. We are working on a full GUI app, which was not going to be ready on time. Well, I put “quick” in quotes above because it was far from quick. I guess I forgot how much work these things can be. And, to your point, how much you end-up reinventing a perfectly good wheel. In retrospect, I should have told our customer to wait another week and deliver a far more capable product using wxPython. Lesson learned. Again.