Big reason why TUIs were popular in the first place is because they are so much simpler to build. Compare ncurses to GTK/Qt, they are completely different leagues. One of my pet ideas is to build a ncurses compatible/style library that skips terminal layer and instead renders directly to Wayland, kinda getting the simplicity of ncurses without dragging all the legacy junk with it.

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CuriouslyC 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Yet ironically getting Claude Code to run at 60fps is way way harder in a TUI? Kinda funny that they optimized for "simple" then footgunned themselves into a client that probably took thousands of man hours to get to a reasonable place for power users.

	▲	weebull 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Yet ironically getting Claude Code to run at 60fps is way way harder in a TUI? That's what happens when you vibe code your app.
	▲	NSPG911 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's just their tech debt. They chose to use react.js in the terminal via ink, and essentially footgun their way through each update.