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Comment by jxdxbx

4 days ago

I've use Claude to make myself a number of little tools and weird apps that only I would want lately. They need to be cross-platform between Linux and Mac and sometimes Windows. The best approaches I've found are Tauri (+Svelte for making layout easier) for lightweight GUIs but for anything more complex I prefer a TUI. The Ratatui framework works very well. A TUI feels like a "real" app as opposed to a glorified webpage. For actually serious software I'd want a native GUI on each platform.

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int_19h  3 days ago

There are so many options for what you describe. E.g. the whole point of Tcl/Tk is to allow easy creation of small little tools and apps. And you can use Tk with Python as well.

quotemstr  4 days ago

> A TUI feels like a "real" app as opposed to a glorified webpage.

Huh? "Feels"? Plenty of Electron/Tauri apps feel perfectly normal. Like I've been saying, the TUI craze is just a fad.

  • jxdxbx  4 days ago

    A TUI app feels like a native terminal app like I have used for my entire computing life, in DOS and then Linux. Electron apps feel like web apps no matter how good they are. I stopped using 1Password when it became an Electron app and became super janky. Discord, Slack, VS Code, the Signal desktop app, all suck UI-wise compared to actual native Mac apps, which even with Liquid Ass, are still better than using web technology for desktop apps. I know that lowest common denominator cross platform apps make economic sense to develop, whatever. They still suck to use.