It makes far more sense in the context of effectively a remote session or dumb terminal serial connection. Your "terminal" application is only emulating a text mode environment inside a gui, typically... you can ctrl+alt+F2 - F5 in a lot of Liknux's to switch to a terminal session if you want, but that's not what people tend to actually use.

Beyond this, without remote X properly configured, again, most don't and probably shouldn't.. you aren't running remote gui applications over an SSH session. Richer TUIs were pretty common in ye old days of DOS and other OSes before rich GUIs become the norm. DOSShell, Edit.com, etc. The IDEs of days past and Word Perfect even. These all interacted with Mice and were considered the norm. The features that allow this over a remote terminal today are pretty great IMO, the harder part is properly handling window sizes/resizes, etc.

With graphical extensions, there are even nice app explorers with image previews via TUI. It pushes the boundaries. For that matter, I often wonder what could have come with RIPscrip/RIPTerm if the leap to web didn't happen the way it did...

I think the single hardest part of TUI is dealing with wide characters and secondary fonts for color emojii that don't quite render in 2 spaces completely in a lot of termianls... it makes the line drawing harder too.

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nine_k 5 hours ago | parent [-]

A remote GUI application now runs in a special client called a web browser; it's a recent development, barely 35 years old.

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dwedge 3 hours ago | parent [-]

These sarcastic reddit style comments grate me. And it's also inaccurate, you're not runnning remote graphical applications from a remote headless webserver. You're rendering it locally.

	▲	mikkupikku an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		He's functionally right though, a remotely served interface can be implemented as a TUI behind ssh, or it could be implemented as a website. Which is the better option depends on the context, but they're both serving the same function, and the terminal emulator you're using to view the TUI is most certainly rendering it on your computer.
	▲	nine_k an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		An X server also normally renders things locally, as does a VT-compatible terminal. If you want no local rendering at all, there's VNC. With a web app, you can slice and dice processing between local and remote by running JS locally. Most processing usually happens remotely though, and only the display and command logic is run in the browser.