Thesis: The surge in popularity of TUIs is not because there's been a sudden interest in retro computing. They're popular because they're an easy way to get a cross platform UI in an app experience.
Antithesis: There are other - and better - ways to achieve this goal. A good cross-platform GUI toolkit gives you the same thing, while retaining the ability to do things like, say, display an *image* or a *line chart*.
A good cross-platform GUI toolkit can even output a TUI if you need that to access your app's UI over SSH.
Like, say, Toga: https://toga.beeware.org
Russell Keith-Magee
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