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)

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1313ed01 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They 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.

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donaldihunter 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are plenty of great TUIs out there: https://terminaltrove.com/explore/

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loloquwowndueo 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Care to elaborate as to why they suck?

	▲	bob1029 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It'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.

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dardeaup 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some 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.

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tcoff91 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

TUIs are great! So fast and efficient to use and accomplish tasks in.

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realharo 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think TUIs mostly suck for IDEs, but some tools like k9s or htop are nice.

	▲	tstenner 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even k9s would profit enormously from detachable dialogs. Just let me do something without losing my current log view.

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nec4b 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>> TUIs sucked

Compared to what available at that time?