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by tempaccount5050 53 days ago
Not anymore it isn't. "Claude, make this a web app".
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Just what I need! A bloated react app to manage my systemd units
Just use something like Tk or wxWidgets.
So just tell it html only if you want.
How does the browser interact with the os? A tui exe has direct access. With “only html” now we need a server of some kind. How is multiple layers and running processes superior to a thin terminal based wrapper around the relevant io?

That said, obviously it depends on the use case. I’m not going to make a tui to interact with locations on a map - a web app makes a lot of sense in that case. But something like lazydocker makes sense more sense as a light terminal based program

A browser is OOM more expensive to run than a terminal app, regardless of what you're running inside said browser
I've literally never met anyone in real life who used a computer that didn't already have a browser running 24/7
Is that because they are much more likely to pay the ultimate price at the hands of the OOM killer?