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by tracker1 90 days ago
Where did I say you couldn't create it use a web application? That said, it's not a their GUI, it's a local UI as part of a thick client.

You can definitely connect aWeb.UI to a remote system and over web sockets be really close to immediate. Though you're still interactive with disconnected state.

It's not usually an issue. That said, there is a lot more complexity and room for bugs for some use cases over a terminal session and plain text or TUI applications.

I've built a career on handling the complexities of web based applications over the past 3 decades. It's far from a panacea.