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My first thought with Textual and most TUIs is always, "but why?" But then I actually look at what they are building, and I realize, "Oh, because it's really cool!"

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Very early in my career I wrote a ton of code in Clipper (a dBase clone and compiler).

In some ways I kinda miss doing @SAY, @GET, the TBrowse class etc and their TUI.

I spent most of the 90s writing Clipper code, used to hang out in comp.lang.clipper lots too. Do still sort of miss it.

https://harbour.github.io/ does exist, although it’s a long while since I last played with that.

Clipper, BLINKER and the Brief editor FTW!

I was more of a qedit fan myself (later TSE), but yeah they were good days.

If you want a real blast from that past, there's even still an archived version of The Oasis kicking about: https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/docs/

My thought was exactly same, “but why?”. It is indeed very cool. But ‘cool’ not enough to drive such an effort for me i guess. I realize the importance, as it can be used over SSH too. A TUI can be very helpful for graphic less servers, say.

Absolutely, I can't wait to get my MS Paint on over ssh. But more seriously, you're absolutely right. There is clearly a large degree of utility in utilizing the terminal as a visual interface/platform. A project such as Textual, which makes development for that platform simpler, is something I can stand behind.

Yes this is downright great. Kudos to the author what a fun throwback/revitalization

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