[skydhash]

And I really dislike them. The nice thing about CLI is that you can compose them quite easily. You can compose your own report giving you what you want and none of what you don’t want.

And most of those TUI are badly designed in terms of configurability. Especially the ise of colors and “effects”.

[WD-42]

TUI and CLI are not the same thing. TUI is a GUI, and GUIs have never been composable.

[jolmg]

I think they understand that. They're saying they dislike TUIs and prefer CLIs because CLIs are composable.

[somat]

> and GUIs have never been composable.

Sure they have, or at least it has been tried. I think it turns out to be such a hard problem to solve that it degrades into proper programing much faster than a cli where pipes can carry hard.

Some examples:

The first xerox alto interface.

smalltalk

Microsofts OLE