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by the_mitsuhiko 172 days ago
Presumably preference of their users. From what I know, other than for cursor, the GUI interfaces are less popular than the TUI ones. Personally I also did not expect that I would really like the TUI experience, but it's hard for me to switch away from it now because it has become so central to my workflow.
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It's easier to ship a TUI app cross-platform, the constraints around UI and state are often simpler, and some good libraries/frameworks (e.g. [1][2]) exist to make a modern-looking UX.

[1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

[2]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual