[kbenson]

Very common for server software, where you may not have a GUI environment installed.

You can run SSH as a server on windows boxes easily now, and depending on your needs (or to standardize across a heterogeneous fleet of servers) it might make sense to have some good CLI/TUI utilities available that are cross-platform.

While I imagine most people won't jump to a TUI for Windows, it could also be a secondary interface for an application that's run on both Windows and Linux/BSD. If no GUI (or no Windows GUI) is detected, approximate the same display using a TUI. The guys of the application can be the same, and you don't have to ship two versions (assuming the rest of the internals area already portable).

[gwbas1c]

(Joke)

Then maybe a cool project is an adapter to allow the text-based GUI to work natively when running in a GUI!