Charlie Kester <[email protected]>:
> Disagree with your assertion that ncurses-based apps are dead or dying.
> For example, there are a lot of people using mutt for email and the
> non-GUI version of vim for general text editing, and these (and many
> other ncurses apps) are actively maintained.
I concur with this disagreement. I'm reading this mail in mutt. And not
because I'm an old fart from a relatively early cohort of Unix hackers either
- though that is arguably true, and the "relatively early" part is descriptive
anywhere I'm not sharing an email list with Doug McIlroy :-).
TUI (terminal user interface) applications retain significant utility because
they can be used over low-bandwidth connections and ssh, and don't have the
number of fragile environmental dependencies typical for GUIs. That use case
won't be vanishing anytime soon.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
