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Agree with the rest of the comments here: keep making TUIs. Fully keyboard-driven, compact interfaces that live in my terminal with the rest of my CLI devtools are the best!


This makes me curious. What are your favourite TUI applications?

The only one I use is Copilot (inside of a VM). ALl other applications I use are GUI/CLI/webapps.


Not OP but, I regularly use :

  - yazi as a file explorer
  - lazygit for git
  - tmux/zellij as multiplexers
  - fzf left and right for a bunch of utils (terminal history, switching between projects in zellij/tmux when working in multi-project workspaces, etc)
  - neovim as a text editor
  - glow for markdown reading
  - currently on pi for my home harness, CC at work
I'm probably missing a few but those are the ones I use more or less daily.


Vim and Tmux. Does psql count too? I'm not really a fan of TUIs aside from that, most stuff is just CLIs.

Claude etc do make sense as TUIs too, but I don't like they way they were implemented. They mess with basic terminal features like copy/paste or scroll when there's no reason to. And they're somehow heavier than actual GUIs.




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