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Re:Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-... by conductr on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @11:40AM (#45824945)
I was just giving some examples, it being theoretically possible in SPA isn't really helpful given that nobody will implement it that way. You're basically living in theory.

I've literally done the before and after on this a handful of times and it's always worse off. Management will never do that, it's always design by committee, the KPIs won't be defined or will never really have teeth, it will turn into someone's vanity project, they won't even pay someone to optimize the code - quite the opposite, they'll choose to build it on something like Salesforce or some other very non-performant enterprise-y platform, etc, etc. All the TUI get these performance gains out of the box without much additional effort. The constraints of the UI are it's strength as it prevents people from adding all this bloat in the first place. When you leave it up to people, especially business users or UX folks, it will get spoiled. It's almost a law.

Re:Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-... by andix on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @11:54AM (#45825087)
> nobody will implement it that way

This is not true. Smart companies do it exactly that way. It saves them a lot of money.

Re:Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-... by saulpw on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:24PM (#45825421)
I've never seen a smart company then.
Re:Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-... by lo_zamoyski on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:27PM (#45825461)
I have a hard time believing this. The medium impacts interaction.

Do you have concrete examples in mind that we can review?

Re:Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-... by andix on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:47PM (#45825697)
The things I've worked on were custom tools for internal use. Built on top of existing systems, to improve productivity for specific workflows.