For me personally, it also has something to do with TUIs feeling more 'snappy' and reliable than many GUIs. For example, when I'm scrolling in Slack to get to previous messages, I'm often looking at blank space while messages load. Or when I open a search engine in Safari, often I cannot type in the search box without clicking on it first. Or in a JetBrains IDE I try to type code but the file navigator still has focus and now I'm using the 'file search' modus which I did not intend to use. I almost never have these issues with TUIs. They're mostly fast and behave like I expect. Can't think of how to explain this better right now.

In theory I like GUIs better as you can do a lot more with them, but they disappoint me so often that I often prefer a TUI (or a commandline tool).

For me, it's much more about my workflow. I spend a lot of time in the terminal anyway, and running things there means a lighter context switch. Moving between apps (=panes), zooming, copy-pasting, all works the same.

I don't like using them so much as I've gotten older, but they are simpler to build, more fun to build, the design options aren't as open-ended, and the tooling is pretty good and crossplatform.

The idiosyncrasy of a GUI in your terminal is also part of its charm, especially in how it looks.

I think it's similar to the appeal of making a webapp in a fun tech like Elm except it has access to the filesystem and can do whatever it wants, so it's also less limiting.

It's probably because TUIs are inferior and limited in their abilities compared to GUI or WebUI, so the creators are putting more work into polishing them in what they can deliver, ending in an overall better user experience in their specific area.

I think it's a desire for minimalism. In a world filled with websites saturated with ads, clickbait and constant attention grabs, this is like walking from an overcrowded city street into a Zen garden.

The main benefits are that programs are lightweight, snappy, and cross-platform.

Same reason I use vim: staying in the terminal with just my keyboard feels efficient, even if it’s just for fun.

Apart from the benefits you already mentioned, mainly that TUI applications are usually keyboard driven.

yeah

It has some hardcoded ability to download episodes from streaming websites and bittorrent. See references to `AnimeProvider` and the impls under `/fastanime/libs/anime_provider/`. (This might also create problems for hosting this on GH in the first place. Let's see...)

Thanks for mentioning yt-x, I'll give it a try. I'm so tired of YouTube absolutely crushing my CPU usage in Firefox.

will do

I'll finally have something productive to do while waiting for the project to compile!

FastAnime is ani-cli but on steroids

thanks