He mentioned eventually running on the web, so my guess is to facilitate migrating old TUIs. There's plenty of consulting money in maintaining old enterprise software.

Those positions were filled and then subsequently removed: https://blog.davep.org/2024/03/28/goodbye-textualize.html#go...

the jobs link gives a 404 error

Yeah same question. It looks like they’re building some pretty cool software, but engineers are expensive and other frameworks exist.