The guidelines are pretty clear that basically all of this comment is not ok, and that this kind of comment is net negative for the quality of the site.
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It seems pretty clear that saying most TUI projects are show-off projects does not mean all TUI projects are show-off projects.
I don't know why you're so aggressively attacking the idea of people making projects to show off.
The claim isn't that zero people use them, or that all TUI projects are made to show off. But most of the TUIs you see land on HN are things somebody made to play around with a technology / scratch a momentary itch.
No shade on those people; making a project that brings the author joy is an awesome reason to make something, and sharing it with folks here is one of the better things about this site. But the TUIs you see here are, by and large, not aiming for (and not going to get) broad adoption.
Every time I read a comment like this, I flash to the episode of the Office where Michael steals one of Dwight's clients while Dwight is on the phone with him in the car. He pitches the client, and Dwight screams into his phone "ARE YOU SAYING YOU INVENTED PAPER?!"
No, friend-o, I'm not saying htop and emacs are show-off projects --- though everyone I know who uses Emacs (myself included) uses graphical emacs.
My point is that most developer tooling is CLI, not TUI; most developer tools are shop jigs, not packaged tools. Though most of the packaged tools: also CLIs!
All of them can very quickly be made into native UIs, though.
You'll get further on HN not calling people "very dishonest".
