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Stop Making TUIs

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/
19•underdeserver•2h ago

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Surac•1h ago
TUI is a kind of self defense. big corps create and kill gui frameworks faster that one can learn them. Browser based ui is a real waste of resources (and also evolve in a absurd pace). The Console is a last resort to write small (understandable) gui that work on many platforms.
0x457•1h ago
Huh? Qt, GTK, Cocoa (AppKit and UIKit), bunch of other linux friendly gui frameworks been around for a long time, even Flutter is still around. What is being killed?
underdeserver•43m ago
They generally stay supported, or if not supported, working.
ssivark•16m ago
We're in an era where soon (if not already) it will become straight forward to direct a clanker to move an application from one gui framework to another.

Once we have robust automated computer use, that becomes the verification loop, and this problem will almost surely get solved.

jmorenoamor•21m ago
No. I like them.
danpalmer•17m ago
What do you like about them? I disagree, but so many people seem to like them that I assume I'm missing something. The main one I've heard before is that they work nicely over SSH, but I assume there must be more?
TurboHaskal•9m ago
I don't think TUIs are inherently better but some are simply too good versus the alternative. magit and k9s for example.
mrheosuper•6m ago
Lightweight and can run over ssh are 2 main reasons i like them.
duskdozer•5m ago
(other user) in my typical experience:

- keyboard can be used for pretty much everything - less visually busy (no/less animations, background images/color variations) - more information dense (fewer things hidden behind hamburger menus, modals, drawers, etc) - more/more easily customizable and documented - more often can provide data directly into the terminal that I'm working in, so don't need to copy/paste through windows etc

these aren't necessarily impossible for GUI, but maybe I would guess just more an artifact of there being types of people who prefer working in the terminal who are then more likely to make TUIs, and I share their preferences more.

GreenSalem•15m ago
Incoherent and far too long .

Lists a bunch of things .

Fails to make any clear points .

Fails to give real reasons for the few claims it makes .

kunley•13m ago
What is the complaint in the article really about?

People write code using the platform X because they like it. It doesn't make sense to try to stop this

JoshTriplett•9m ago
You know what's awesome about TUIs? They live in a tab in my terminal. 95% of the time, my system has three windows open: terminal, browser, Signal.

Please, make more TUIs and web apps, so they can live in my terminal or my browser.

walrus01•6m ago
Additionally, I can with very high confidence run TUI software inside an ssh session to one of my headless machines, and then further within gnu screen or tmux detach and later resume a session with everything I was doing. Even if I switch from my laptop to my desktop, or want to leave a bunch of stuff waiting for a week and come back to it later.

Once you get the key bindings for screen or tmux thoroughly memorized it's very easy.

Stop Making TUIs

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/
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