The lack of accessibility of TUIs is not great in general.

I'd much rather terminals emulator provide a webview directly, and maybe use https://webtui.ironclad.sh/ if you really want the look.

I think it makes more sense for a cli to offer a mini webserver instead.

Think `fish_config`, but opened in the terminal directly [0].

[0]: like https://iterm2.com/browser-plugin.html

This is a vibe coded app and isn't what I'd want but still, it's interesting to consider what a good implementation of "Figma for TUIs" could be, especially if it avoids the trap of simply treating the console as a crude raster instead of taking advantage of text and keyboards. IMO we don't need WIMP GUI shoved into terminal emulators.

Half surprised there's no raratui export with the other options. That said, probably lends itself more to Ink and @opentui/react. Also slightly disappointed at the lack of a direct Linux build for AppImage and/or Flathub. Also not using Github's releases which is a little curious.

A UI design tool for TUIs -- made with Electron?... fun times!

Look up Visual Basic for Dos for a surprisingly good TUI editor!

So we’re going full circle here right? Can’t wait for the first TUI MVC/MVVM/MVP/M-whatever framework to show up.

The fact that this app isn’t itself a TUI is kinda telling, tbh.

This is so cool I immediately wanted to convert my apps. But then when I thought about it, well it's trying to recreate CSS but in a majorly worse way.

Browsers are ubiquitous and I can just tell ai to build a web page. I can't really see a use case other than novelty.

Nope, check out something like wiretext, look at this example I put together very quickly

https://wiretext.app/w/WUtjS1bk

TUIs built today should be usable by AI agents. I'm not sure exactly what it looks like but I'm imagining that every UI view has an associated CLI command that can yield precisely that view. Maybe like formally structured breadcrumbs, or maybe like Emacs "keyboard macros".