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TUIs sucked and they still suck. Programmers are trying to bring them back bc nostalgia I guess? I floated the idea of TUIs to our data engineering team and g
by pragmatic 1y ago
TUIs sucked and they still suck.
Programmers are trying to bring them back bc nostalgia I guess?
I floated the idea of TUIs to our data engineering team and got very negative responses. (My nostalgia for undergrad turbo pascal TUI I guess lol)
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoCare to elaborate as to why they suck?
- bob1029 1y agoIt's not that TUIs suck in terms of their inherent capabilities. It's that they're generally a miserable tool for the job, especially if it's a big one. TUIs are like shovels. A perfectly rational tool for doing a little bit of digging. Visual Studio 2022 is like Bagger 293.
- realharo 1y agoI think TUIs mostly suck for IDEs, but some tools like k9s or htop are nice.
- tstenner 1y agoEven k9s would profit enormously from detachable dialogs. Just let me do something without losing my current log view.
- dardeaup 1y agoSome do and some don't. Have you ever used any to develop an application? I suppose a lot of it is also relative. When I started with TUIs decades ago, we didn't have too many options. Turbo Pascal 5.5 or 6.0 was extremely nice to use back in the day.
- 1313ed01 1y agoThey are undeniably programmer-friendly though, no matter how hated by users. Much easier to do things when you are limited to just a grid of fixed size characters rather than the bizarre complexities of modern GUIs.
- tcoff91 1y agoTUIs are great! So fast and efficient to use and accomplish tasks in.
- nec4b 1y ago>> TUIs sucked Compared to what available at that time?
- donaldihunter 1y agoThere are plenty of great TUIs out there: https://terminaltrove.com/explore/ https://terminaltrove.com/explore/