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- URL: https://x.com/badcop_/status/2000640946795655678
- Author: badcop (@badcop_)
- Posted: 2025-12-15 18:55:46
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1/ @badcop_
@rfleury
i’d agree on the first two, but remote is a hard sell
your options involve either rendering the application on the remote (which means running a display server), or building your application itself with a server/client model
in tui land, it’s just free
2/ @rfleury
@badcop_
None of this makes sense when you consider that TUI (or really any terminal output) is a special case of GUI
3/ @badcop_
@rfleury
i’m not sure that helps your argument
special cases are usually simpler to solve for than the broader, general case
i can calculate the area of a square with 1 variable, but i need 2 to solve for the area of any rectangle
4/ @rfleury
My point is that you could imagine different (better) primitives, which are a different special case than the TUI, but also more flexible and expressive w.r.t. graphics. This would be far superior in a computing world characterized by ubiquitous high resolution screens, GPUs, and high CPU clock rates and core counts.