This is going to end up with TUIs that resemble old BBS ANSI art, such as https://16colo.rs/

It completely misses the reason people like current TUIs.

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.

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

FWIW, I still love to see the old BBS UIs and ANSI art. But that's probably just nostalgia talking.

	▲	calgoo 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We can remain grateful the kids haven't discovered how to use figlet in HN comments.

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genxy 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.