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I don't understand the trend of forcing everything into terminals. It's needlessly constraining and it's much more work that just using Qt (or any other UI fram

• dividedcomet 22d ago
  For me it’s that why do I need another application open? I have my coding agents in the terminal, I should also be able to traverse and read a codebase in the terminal as well
  • LiamPowell 22d ago
    Why do you want you coding agents to be in a terminal? A terminal is missing latex rendering, inline images, a browser showing what the agent is clicking on, being able to view a spreadsheet and then select a region to reference in the conversation, clickable links when it references a specific line number with mouse-over previews, and interactive inline visualisations. A coding agent missing any of those is a significantly worse experience, yet people are for some reason willing to give up all of them to have their coding agents run in a terminal. It's not even like you get a familiar environment to work in, nothing that you set up in your terminal carries over into your agent or IDE.
    • colesantiago 22d ago
      Exactly. We need this terminal TUI nonsense trend to completely die. Stop using TUIs! They are garbage. Honestly, the GUI is more intuitive and everyone can use it.
      • evanjrowley 22d ago
        But GUIs are less useful for remote access unless you want to take on the challenge of creating a web front-end for everything.
    • flexagoon 22d ago
      Terminals have had inline images for a long time at this point