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Posted by underdeserver 1 day ago

Stop Making TUIs(sockpuppet.org)
380 points | 500 commentspage 11
migueldeicaza 12 hours ago|
Make me
vivzkestrel 10 hours ago||
stop making your blog take 20% width on my 4k monitor
tim-projects 17 hours ago||
I'm currently building a winamp clone that works over ssh, using textual. So I'll have to hard disagree
ewwefwef 15 hours ago||
If your program use slow internet like tui I cant write tui program. no problem.
x0xMaximus 1 day ago||
aerc is the best program I've ever used. tmux from anywhere. May TUIs never die.
api 7 hours ago||
Accessibility is a giant problem with almost every open source GUI library too.

It seems like an absolute slam dunk for AI. Create an integrated AI screen reader app that observes the screen and talks to you. It wouldn't even need to be a huge model. It could be a small local model that can just read and interpret UI elements and feed the results as tool use calls into an accessibility layer. It'd probably be a custom trained accessibility model, could probably be based on an existing small computer use model fine tuned for the purpose.

This seems like the "accessibility solution to end all accessibility solutions" that totally takes the burden out of the code and puts it in one place that can be uniformly improved.

This is the way. It just wasn't possible 5 years ago.

evanjrowley 5 hours ago||
I understand the point the article's making, and in fact, I believe it's a good one. Ultimately I continue to prefer TUIs over GUIs for one reason: Practically nobody will target TUIs for advertisements, doom scroll content, AI slop, any kind of marketing, etc.
singpolyma3 13 hours ago||
TUIs are just a kind of GUI. And rarely a particularly good kind
plaidwombat 12 hours ago||
Sorry, we Morlocks actually prefer the CLI to the TUI.
dekdrop 10 hours ago|
TUIs are popular because Unix didn't have graphics. Plan9 had graphics but didn't catch on. Making us living in an emulated terminal device.
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