Stop telling me what to do.

Ah, people who build and enjoy TUIs have never built a GUI. What a wonderful assumption to make about people :)

I completely disagree. I love using TUIs, the apps are lighter and faster and work great.

The author starts with a bunch of vibecoded slop apps that show exactly what I hate about 'modern' GUI apps, a lack of options and wasted screen-space. They look hip but are harder to use to me.

Wow that's a lot of snark

This piece is just marketing for all the authors slop coded projects

curses!

Are there not disparities between running an application in the terminal and running a native GUI? I can only speak for macOS, but my experience with bespoke native GUI applications of my own or other developers (pre-built distributions in GitHub assets) is that I must first pass through the layers of the macOS security model: doing a right-click dance to launch the application, changing permissions in security settings, etc. I assume the experience is different depending on how you set up Xcode to compile, how it's signed, etc (I have zero experience with how this works). That said, I do not recall being subjected to any of this using terminal applications.

Put differently, a GUI application seems to subject you far more to the whims of Apple or Windows than a TUI and perhaps even a different run context. Maybe the permissions fiddling for this is insignificant. Is there a clear user contract from Apple or Microsoft about this?

Naturally, this is a non-issue in Linux.

Have there been any attempts at graphical TUIs?

As in, using graphics, vectors, but with a fully text-based UI?

You can't ssh into a swift app.

TUIs are great as a layer above bunch of commands with too many commandline parameters and flags. For everything else .. no, thank you.