I hope it’s inevitable. Most users’ computing workloads by far are text oriented. The terminal is capable of flexbox now. Current GUIs create massive complexity and power draw relative to their value. Over a long enough arc, economic inefficiency is doomed.

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zahlman an hour ago | parent [-]

> The terminal is capable of flexbox now.

You mean like https://silvery.dev/examples/layout.html ? This is definitely not a UI development paradigm I would have expected to see.

	▲	user3939382 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That’s the tip of a conceivable iceberg but exactly. Also look at kitty graphics protocol. Look at the amount of engineering resources we pour into OS GUI toolkits and then browsers. Those layers of complexity aren’t there because we stood back and said, “given what we know in 2026 how should we design a GUI compositor?”. The majority of the stack is written how it is by archeological happenstance. One generation adds on top of the prior since the 60s. I’d say start from the terminal, fix the rendering limitations that drove the split from terminal and then to the browser. If we pin down efficient GUI, we could have machines that cover non graphics workloads which is the vast majority with solar and the equivalent of a 6502. The amount of energy wasted on modern stacks relative to the tasks being delivered is incalculable.