Reading code was always much harder than writing it and it's certainly the root of many NIH syndrome disasters. Writing helps, but you're right that these are two seperate and related skills.
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"C’est une folie de haïr toutes les roses parce qu’une épine vous a piqué."
Also, while some pages may look like static HTML pages, they may be generated on the fly by an expensive and/or slow backend, which adds to the cost. I happen to maintain servers for academics and some content management systems are slow and have an expensive CPU cost. While it's OK for the low number of humans interested in the subjects they deal with, it's definitely not fit for massive bot scrapping. And before you ask, no, it's not always practical to have cache upfront or to pre-generate all pages.
uv + PEP723 make this even better.
It is, everywhere I need it. Never had to change a single line across the various OS/Terms I used. Can't say the same for web apps or even so-called cross-platform GUIs. Been there, done that.
> It's not - most terminals are ridiculously slow, and each TUI framework requires its own hacks to do partial "repaints" using ANSI escapes, because clearing and redrawing the entire screen (yes, just a screen of monospace text!) is unworkable.
I don't care about these details. I care about the app feeling snappy and responsive. It sure does. Again, I wish it was the case for GUIs.
> With no ergonomic way to build a menu bar, display hints/tooltips, or even support modified keyboard shortcuts well across platforms? I don’t think it is.
Discoverable as in "you can start the app and figure it out along the way without prior documentation reading". And we do have hints, menus and what not. Trying to nitpick ?
> Extraordinarily insecure, in other words.
Are you implying the app running from my ssh session is more exposed than a web app or a API endpoint for a GUI app ?
Like all things, TUI is not a panacea and has its place.
Absolutely not.
No, I don't think I will :)
It's great for admin tools, alongside CLIs.
It's portable, it's fast, it's discoverable, it has zero bullshit effects, it's as secure as my shell, it's efficient.
And what is this point about agents making it easy to generate GUIs ? They are equally good (if not better) at generating TUIs using any of the great frameworks for this.
Hosting is not free.