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by djha-skin 713 days ago
Where have you been all my life. This fills such a hole in the market -- a Vim-like terminal spreadsheet tool.

The terminal tools have gotten so much better in the last few years. There's a real Renaissance happening.

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The terminal has gotten good because the GUIs have gotten useless.

Now we are doing the same thing to the terminal.

I'd rather have a poor UI that works than a flashy one that breaks, which is what we'll get in 10 years. Just like with regular UIs.

Microsoft Multiplan for CP/M is the tool for you and only needs 46, maybe 60kB of free memory!
There is a Multiplan for DOS either. The Multiplan [1] page has more information:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan

Shh! Don't remind Bill Gates of his famous last words!

https://www.google.com/search?q=640kb+ought+to+be+enough+for...

It's only because you can't put Electron apps in the terminal (yet).
Don't worry. The word on the street is that a red-hot startup is shortly launching a terminal with a petabyte of memory attached to it.

(They patented an innovation called hardware attached to software, instead of the traditional software attached to hardware.)

That should easily suffice for many instances of bloatware, er, Electron apps running in tmux tabs.

Hybrid apps FTW!

But you can already put React in the terminal with react-curse.
React-curse? How fitting.
This is more true than I think many people realize. Many of my terminal apps are in direct competition with an electron app.
No, PLEASE DON'T!
though with brow.sh ... :D