Comment by troyvit

I'm not a TUI developer but I'm about to become one after my experience with Tauri on a simple project. But focus on why I'm a TUI user. Maybe these reasons are why people develop TUI apps:

* Speed: Work gave me an i5. It has lots of RAM after I begged for it, but it's pretty slow. Having TUI apps for programming (vim+aider-ce/opencode), git wrangling (lazygit), music (pyradio), etc. saves a ton of RAM and cpu for me.

* Availability: I use yakuake as my main terminal, so when I don't need those apps they aren't cluttering up my desktop, but when I need them they are immediately available with a tap to F-12. No matter what desktop I'm on, there's my workspace.

* Configurability: Most of these apps are ridiculously theme-able, and that's really fun.

* UX: Most of the apps I use use vim bindings. That makes it super easy to get around. I rarely have to touch a mouse.

* Simplicity and portability: My coworkers spend at least a day setting up a new laptop. Yeah they're probably milking it but I'm up and running in a few hours.

* Potential: I've barely touched the surface, but I think there's a lot of compartmentalization of projects to be done with multiplexers like tmux that would be difficult-to-impossible to do with regular GUIs.

* Speed: Apps start and stop in fractions of seconds vs watching a spinner go 'round

* Cool factor: My girlfriend thinks I'm pretty disgusting when she sees how many browser tabs I have open but she thinks I'm pretty hawt when she sees how many terminal tabs I have open.