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I suspect that a native GUI, or even something like GPUI or Flutter would be still more performant than TUI's, which are bound by the limitations of emulating terminals.

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A very important thing about constraints is that they also liberate. TUIs automatically work over ssh, can be suspended with ctrl-z and such, and the keyboard focus has resulted in helpful conventions like ctrl-R that tend to not be as prominent in GUIs.

What does ctrl-R do?

History search, like in shells. My most used TUI shortcut!

Just dropping this here because I had no idea about/ignored tools like this until recently, in case you weren't aware of them, but it's been a big help in my workflow https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

>would be still more performant than TUI's, which are bound by the limitations of emulating terminals.

That's what makes them great. As opposed to modern "minimal" waste of space UIs or the Electron crappage.

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