So I’m designing a new #GUI toolkit with #REPL built-in, heavy on #UNIX philosophy and shell integration. Inspired by ed(1), of course. But I need to stress-test this design against possible use-cases for such a GUI. What are the small GUI apps you use daily or want to have that’d benefit from a really simple custom GUI you can hack up in an hour?
So far I have:
• Disk flashing utility (I keep forgetting the commands)
• Shell
• Music player
Any other ideas?
#theWorkshop
Artyom Boologov
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2026-05-12 20:13:07 UTC
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