"If you do still want or need to make a terminal application that is interactive rather than just being a command-line tool, what is the best way to go about it

"If you do still want or need to make a terminal application that is interactive rather than just being a command-line tool, what is the best way to go about it? You should write it inside Emacs, using Emacs Lisp, and run it as an application by invoking Emacs to run the function that is the entry point for your application. This way you can have legacy terminal support to make use of ssh and tmux, by running Emacs in a terminal, and modern graphical support to display fancy graphics and use more keybindings, by running Emacs in a graphical environment." Though the latter point is interesting, I find the suggestion unexpected. Isn't curses-based applications a possibility for the author? Why would you limit your users to those that use Emacs, unless the application is just for you? I'm working on a ClojureScript on Node.js (i.e. instant boot) functional UI library[1] and I find it pretty empowering. I also kept the Node.js touchpoints very separate so I can soon provide a JS Canvas implementation so the same UI code runs on terminal and browser for free. I was suprised how easy it was to implement vi/Emacs-like sequence keybinds, with prefixes and all that. I'm really liking the ability to easily whip up terminal user interfaces for various simple and complex applications. 1: https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n