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I've currently been focusing on making terminal user interfaces work well across personal computer, server, and browser platforms, because rich ANSI TTYs (like
by jart 4y ago
I've currently been focusing on making terminal user interfaces work well across personal computer, server, and browser platforms, because rich ANSI TTYs (like Blinkenlight's TUI) is a problem that's tractable for mostly one individual to solve really well. Doing the same thing with GUIs would require millions of dollars of resources and even then, it'd be unlikely to have a native look and feel.
- musicale 4y agoTUIs are great and underappreciated in my opinion. Another thing I wish were used more is character-mode graphics such as line-drawing, semigraphics, and various unicode symbols; I also wish more terminal emulators supported inline images - often I don't want to start up a new app just to plot something. Agreed about native look and feel, but I don't think GUIs are intrinsically huge and intractable. Consider the various immediate mode GUIs posted on HN (Nuklear, Imgui, etc.) as well as the original Mac toolbox, which fit in 64K of ROM. Thanks for the reply and for the interesting projects and posts!