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Lots of language have pretty good tools for making TUIs. There's a good ratio between the time it takes to implement a TUI and its usefulness. Writing a GUI w
by WhyNotHugo 11mo ago
Lots of language have pretty good tools for making TUIs.
There's a good ratio between the time it takes to implement a TUI and its usefulness.
Writing a GUI with equivalent functionality would typically be a lot more work, with no gains at all. Er, except maybe touchscreen and touch-gesture support, none of which would add any value for this kind of tool.
- globular-toast 11mo ago> Writing a GUI with equivalent functionality would typically be a lot more work, with no gains at all. I disagree. Have you used something like tkinter? It's ridiculously easy to build GUIs. The trouble is if you build a GUI that way it will look kinda beige/crap whereas a TUI looks retro (but looks even worse to non-nerds).
- WhyNotHugo 11mo agoApparently it had no Wayland support: https://discuss.python.org/t/feature-request-wayland-support-for-tkinter/75198 https://discuss.python.org/t/feature-request-wayland-support... So there’s another issues with GUIs, they might be fine on Xorg and have issues on Wayland (or viceversa). TUIs all work as long as your terminal emulator works.