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This is going to end up with TUIs that resemble old BBS ANSI art, such as https://16colo.rs/ https://16colo.rs/ It completely misses the reason people like cur

This is going to end up with TUIs that resemble old BBS ANSI art, such as https://16colo.rs/ https://16colo.rs/ It completely misses the reason people like current TUIs.

lsaferite 8mo ago
FWIW, I still love to see the old BBS UIs and ANSI art. But that's probably just nostalgia talking.
- calgoo 8mo ago
  FYI LLMs are great at generating the ascii art, so you can create real fun games and TUIs that look like old school BBSs.
- fidotron 8mo ago
  We can remain grateful the kids haven't discovered how to use figlet in HN comments.
drob518 8mo ago
I agree. The animation on the site lost me when it placed a button. IMO, buttons are not part of TUIs. Those are just low-resolution GUIs, IMO, and that’s sort of the worst of all worlds. The first good TUIs were things like top and elm.
genxy 7mo ago
ENSHT comes for everyone. This is sexual selection over natural selection. Claude Code also gets this wrong, they got way to fancy and ruined what a good tui is by being an uncanny combo between a scrolling log and a completely rewritten canvas.