Worth noting that Windows 3.x Paint could be used entirely from the keyboard, as the arrow keys moved the cursor and you could position it with pixel-precision. This is in addition to the fact that the rest of the OS was also entirely usable without a mouse.

One of the pieces of software I sell is motorsports timing software [0], it has a GUI for newbs, but at the bottom of every window is a little bar that shows the list of shortcuts. People pick them up quickly!

And it's auto generated from the UI code. It still surprises me how many people just prefer the mouse anyway, though. But the option is there!

[0] https://sidewaysdata.com

I am kind of obsessed with keyboard shortcuts, ever since discovering Vim a million years ago. The Vim shortcuts are burned into my brain.

I've found that that itch is pretty much entirely solved by Sway (especially since it supports modal navigation, which I have become pretty addicted to), but honestly I actually found Gnome Shell (as of about ~2 years ago) pretty keyboard friendly. Hitting the Windows key [1] brings up the global search and that worked to launch stuff, moving between workspaces worked ok. I know it's popular to hate on Gnome 3 and beyond but honestly I rather liked it.

[1] Or whatever the official name for it is; it's a Windows logo on my keyboard.

Given Bloomberg Terminal's success, and all the IBM terminals at warehouses and big stores - this is more than apparent. But only few understand UI to design it right.

On the web, keyboard accessible web UIs are a WCAG 2.1.1 level A requirement - that's literally the most basic level of accessibility standard (unless you count 'failed' as a level). If your website / web app isn't achieving that then you haven't tried very hard.

Relatedly, I think that GUI frameworks should make it easier to make your app fully keyboard driven. But my experience with making GUIs is that it seems harder than necessary to make an efficient keyboard-driven interface.

And it should also be easy to make the keyboard controls customizable.

Besides JavaFX[1] are there any free, open-source, object-oriented, event-driven, cross-platform, native GUI frameworks that allow for keyboard-accessible UIs? Preferably using a modern language such as Go.

When I developed KeenWrite[2] over 12 years ago, I chose JavaFX because it was (a) bundled with Java; and (b) ran on Linux, Mac, and Windows. JavaFX was later ripped out of Java, to my chagrin, forcing a number of technical contortions.

[1]: Not free on Windows due to Microsoft's $500 cert signing process.

[2]: https://keenwrite.com/

The mouse is amazing, if you have a good sensor, a mousepad and no mouse acceleration. Not many have this setup, but those who do can wield their cursor with insane speed and accuracy. Consider top osu! or Starcraft players.

Yeah I would rather just have a single interface(the terminal) for all of the tools that I use that are keyboard driven by default. There isn't anything I need from a GUI that the terminal doesn't give me.

I also can't cleanly nest and stack GUI applications in tmux like I can with TUI programs. I think GUIs are for the most part tailored towards non-power users unless its something like video editing or 3d modeling that is aimed more towards professionals

Back in the early 1990s, mice were fragile enough that Apollo salespeople were trained to be able to do their demos keyboard-only as backup (at least for tradeshows) and that was just generally how interfaces were built. It wasn't an accessibility thing, it was a "we're demoing expensive systems to even more expensive people, it had better work" thing...