Comment by WhyNotHugo

13 hours ago

Lots of language have pretty good tools for making TUIs.

There's a good ratio between the time it takes to implement a TUI and its usefulness.

Writing a GUI with equivalent functionality would typically be a lot more work, with no gains at all. Er, except maybe touchscreen and touch-gesture support, none of which would add any value for this kind of tool.

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globular-toast  10 hours ago

> Writing a GUI with equivalent functionality would typically be a lot more work, with no gains at all.

I disagree. Have you used something like tkinter? It's ridiculously easy to build GUIs. The trouble is if you build a GUI that way it will look kinda beige/crap whereas a TUI looks retro (but looks even worse to non-nerds).