Every time I read a comment like this, I flash to the episode of the Office where Michael steals one of Dwight's clients while Dwight is on the phone with him in the car. He pitches the client, and Dwight screams into his phone "ARE YOU SAYING YOU INVENTED PAPER?!"

No, friend-o, I'm not saying htop and emacs are show-off projects --- though everyone I know who uses Emacs (myself included) uses graphical emacs.

My point is that most developer tooling is CLI, not TUI; most developer tools are shop jigs, not packaged tools. Though most of the packaged tools: also CLIs!

All of them can very quickly be made into native UIs, though.

You'll get further on HN not calling people "very dishonest".

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colesantiago 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> I'm not saying htop and emacs are show-off projects...

> TUIs are show-off projects most of the time.

Your statement and anecdotes means nothing and are meaningless since you provided 0 examples of the preported "show off" TUI projects.

Maybe you should re-read what you said again before backpedalling after I gave solid counter examples and you provided none.

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nzoschke 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The screenshot in the post demonstrates show-off TUIs.

That git TUI doesn't offer anything over `git` CLI.

The network / battery / performance TUI is redundant with the tools in the window menu bar.

I love the aesthetic of TUIs but their actual day-to-day install base and usage must pale in comparison to CLIs and GUIs.

	▲	colesantiago 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The whole point of a TUI is that it is faster than typing hundreds of commands and options you're likely to forget and made a mistake on. That is not 'showing off'. And you providing anecdotes based on a single blog post doesn't change that. TUIs are not for everyone sure, but they also save developers a lot of time typing and using a mouse. I don't even like TUIs and this is obvious.