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by ayushnix 1608 days ago
> There's a big difference... a terminal application takes over your terminal

What do you mean "takes over"? You can always open another tab inside your terminal. You can use tmux to open multiple panes inside the same tab.

> and doesn't have all the usual advantages of command-line applications used from the shell, like history and easy scripting.

That may be true but at least TUI apps can be truly platform and DE independent, unlike GUI apps coming out from GTK4 where every non-trivial GTK4 app in existence is a libadwaita app. Qt apps are buggy on Wayland right now. In such a scenario, anything that runs on a terminal is a welcome addition for me. I'm done with GUI apps, except my web browser.
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tgv 1608 days ago
Your typical command line application on Unix can be piped into another one, or get its input from a file. That's not what Charm is about.
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ayushnix 1608 days ago
Sure, that's okay, it helps build TUIs rather than CLIs. I'll gladly take TUIs over their GUI counterparts in most cases except where it isn't practical such as image editing.

A good example is the lf file manager.

https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

I was using ranger before this but yeah, I have no reason to use GUI file managers anymore.

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