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I really don't, I started my coding life on 8 bit computers, went through all MS-DOS versions starting with MS-DOS 3.3, and on the UNIX side with Xenix, all the time wishing stuff like the Amiga, Atari ST and Acorn would be the standard way of computing.

Turbo Vision was the best TUI framework, with a compiled language, in 1990, 32 years ago!

I really don't get this terminal nostalagia.

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I personally think it's because in many ways we're not building native, snappy, keyboard-driven desktop apps any longer.

Everything is moving to the web or web-like. Most of the apps I use at work are web-based and mouse-heavy. The overall slowness and latency of the UI is killing me.

TUI apps represent a weird niche. People building them are _usually_ into providing a UX that is fast, productive, offline-first and composable (ie: lends itself to automation). It's a breath of fresh air.

I agree. It's easier to build TUI apps (and more portable usually) then fully native GUI applications.

Another point for TUI apps is that they are usually keyboard focused unlike GUI and webapps which require using the mouse (and are therefore less efficient)

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