[demosthenex]

I've love to see more character cell intefaces. Not everyone wants to run a web/GUI stack for a simple CRUD form. TUIs are often fast, and low requirements. I've considered the same myself, as no modern languages include a real TUI library (no, curses support != a TUI).

[copperx]

There ought to be an open-source Linux-compatible Borland Turbo Vision clone.

Your clients could be $10 Raspberry Pi Zeros.

[demosthenex]

I think that's what the web community misses. We have 50 years of Moore's Law to benefit from, yet we are making slower applications than ever. The larger these codebases, the more complex they are to maintain, secure, and debug. They need larger hardware to provide the same relative performance.

I want to see more lean, tiny, fast applications. Low TOC, low investment because they aren't complex. Low end hardware that can be made reliable, small, and maintainable.

I think it's hideous that most business applications I see (CRUD interfaces) are 90+% text, and yet they are built on layer and layers of GUI and web interfaces.

Your Raspberry Pi example would be lean and easy to maintain. No virus scanners, no 20GB OS footprint to maintain. No worries about your user visiting Facebook all day instead of working with your business application.

I want applications that are so incredibly dull that they will be taken for granted as much as office telephone.