Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
8 hours ago
Because making a decent GUI is harder than making a decent TUI. Also TUIs give you some nice things for free like working over SSH easily, but I suspect the lower dev effort is the big thing.
8 hours ago
Because making a decent GUI is harder than making a decent TUI. Also TUIs give you some nice things for free like working over SSH easily, but I suspect the lower dev effort is the big thing.
you think so? i think making a good TUI is a pain in the ass
They are both not easy to make great, but with TUI you have way more constraints than with GUI so you can make something decent quickly and focus on important interaction and not on pixel-perfect button alignment.
Windows 98-XP GUIs were the best for such cases: there were clear design guidelines, everybody used native components, and GUI designers in IDEs were practical.