[Gormo]

That'd be true if there were more TUI applications being developed, but I'm not sure that's necessarily the case, since there have always been a lot of them out there. It seems like people are talking about them more often, though.

[backscratches]

Definitely more too thanks to really mature rust tui tooling

[reconnecting]

Not accurate. Claude suggests TUI as the first option for everything: Go, Python, Rust.

[backscratches]

I don't understand your meaning.

Github lists almost 5,000 TUIs released since January 1, 2026. [1]

[1] https://github.com/search?q=Tui+created%3A%3E2026-01-01+&typ...

[reconnecting]

Exactly. If you take a look, most of these repos have Claude as a contributor, so I suppose it's Claude that recommends using TUIs and not the developers themselves.

In the same period of 2024, there were ~700 repos on github.

[backscratches]

Maybe you're right, but my hunch is AI has increased the number of all types of projects, and would have to see some evidence that AI was disproportionately building TUIs. The trend of new TUIs was well known before coding agents were a thing, and my evidence is the half dozen or so tools I use every single day that came out less than ten years ago but before coding agents.