Comment by coldtea

>I've always been a bit mystified by the popularity of TUIs. To me, the power of the terminal is the streaming model.

Ever used Emacs? Or Vim? Or Mutt? Or Borland's old IDEs?

The power of the terminal is also in ubiquitness, trivial connection to a remote system, and lack of mountains of GUI cruft, that a TUI app can as well have.