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As someone who writes software for moderately boring business operations, I've been wondering making terminal-based apps with lots of keyboard shortcuts would lead to a more productive end user than writing a web app.

I've been looking at https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui but haven't tried it yet.

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I'm old enough to have used green screen CICS apps in a bank. The things that really helped productivity were:

* Information dense screens (despite having only 80x25 characters)

* Responsiveness

* Reliable type-ahead when the responsiveness wasn't quite good enough

Those used to be common features of websites until 5-10 years ago too. And I'm assuming that you mean 'responsiveness' in the sense of 'application responds immediately to user input' rather than the misnomer usage common in web development.

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