[jvanderbot]

You're probably right. TUIs (being old) have selection bias towards quality. However, my experience writing TUIs is that it's not even the same class of difficulty as writing GUIs. GUIs by any means have way more overhead and learning curve. Not to mention that a TUI is more likely to be immediately CLi compatible via adding a --no-tui flag, or CLI patchable via --tui.

[breuleux]

I suppose. I think it depends on your tooling somewhat. I mean, looking at the feature article, Bonsai lets you define TUI elements with an HTML-inspired syntax -- so if you're using that, it's a similar difficulty as writing a web interface, minus starting a server, Electron, or styling stuff yourself. You can just stay in the terminal. That's nice! But if you don't have such facilities and you want something more elaborate than just sequentially printing information, TUIs can be a bit rough.

[jvanderbot]

Ratatui is pretty great. Try it out.