Nostalgia aside, those classic TUIs nailed responsiveness and cohesion. Modern setups can match features, but rarely that instant, synchronous feel. Emacs + Magit shows the power of text-first integration, yet JetBrains-style debuggers and glue still win for many. It’d be great to see a modern, fast, Borland‑like TUI with solid LSP and LLDB integration.
Congrats on the release. The SEE approach—schema-aware delta, dictionaries, PageDir, and tuned Bloom filters—seems thoughtfully engineered. The tradeoff versus pure zstd makes sense if selective probes dominate TCO. I’ll try the quick demo; curious about failure modes and Bloom tuning across varied schemas.
I get why full-screen plus trackpad gestures feel great on macOS—if you mostly work in a single window, that’s enough. But when the workflow becomes multi-window (terminal, editor, browser DevTools, logs, docs), predictable layouts start to matter. Tiling tools aren’t just “put two windows side by side”—they:
- Cut context-switching overhead: focus moves and rearrangements happen via keyboard without breaking flow.
- Create reusable “work panels”: replicate the same layout across projects/spaces, so you don’t keep “placing windows.”
- Make high-res displays useful: on 5K/6K or ultrawide, precise partitioning beats full-screen.
My compromise on mac is “light management” (Rectangle/Moom with a handful of shortcuts) for ~80% of needs; when I need stronger workspace semantics, I use Aerospace/Rift. Not everyone needs tiling, but once window count and switching frequency rise, its value becomes obvious.