I enjoyed the article. He has good points. I'll emphasize one and add a other. 1. CPU/memory performance on cheap or throwaway systems has a niche benefit. Mos

I enjoyed the article. He has good points. I'll emphasize one and add a other. 1. CPU/memory performance on cheap or throwaway systems has a niche benefit. Mostly poor people. I'm still usually on an ancient Thinkpad with a 2nd gen i7. It runs native apps really fast to this day. Almost all GUI cuz I agree with the OP but my apps are TUI by default to keep them lean and fast. 2. Security. While I don't aim for it these days, it was much easier to make textual apps securely than GUI apps. Secure OS's from the 90's already secured console apps. TX, Nitpicker, and EROS made progress on GUI's but there's high complexity still. I'll note the OP's idea of GUI front ends is basically what we did to isolate the GUI part in a dedicated partition with messages it sends checked by the secure component. Other than those observations, I'm with OP where I'm tired of TUI's if GUI's are that easy now. I considered trying it with some lightweight, cross-platform frameworks. Anybody tried some with cheap AI's?