Except my laptop isn't something bound to 1 MB RAM, with luck having a VGA card able to do 256 colors, running at about 20 MHz with turbo button and a whooping 40 MB hard drive.
Compare a proficient travel agent who speaks Sabre to you booking a flight on Skyscanner. They’d whup your ass.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G8n0_3t-EhI&pp=ygUPc2FicmUgY2xpI...
Heck, there are even Win32 and X Windows APIs designed with the exact purpose for keyboard navigation and shortcuts.
Maybe instead of doing TUIs one should better spend their time learning the tools of their craft.
Skyscanner failure to adopt such tooling, which browser also have due to accessibility requirements, has nothing to do with technical issues, all about skill and willingness where to spend budget.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/key...
https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/events/keyboard-pointer/keybo...
Although I'm sure its technically possible to do it, in reality no gui apps work that way and extra keystrokes end up lost while web forms refresh or a 2 tier app is waiting for the DB to respond.
Similarly with IDEs and programming - saving 0.5-2 seconds for 10-20 operations isn’t my bottleneck once I’ve decided to do the thing; waiting for the corporate antivirus to scan the chrome executable that has self updates since it last saw it, plus the VPN timeout because I haven’t logged into a corp site in 3 hours is.
Besides, visual tools can and do have very powerful shortcuts. ‘Make run’ takes longer to type than pressing F5 does, in visual studio. Photoshop, Maya, Nuke, ProTools, Final Cut, even Unity/Unreal are all graphical tools that have powerful widely used keyboard shortcuts.