Re:Rust's TUI Revolution
by kibwen on Sunday November 09, 2025 @09:40AM
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Even at the worst case, text can be read aloud and give some indication of what the screen contains. This is absolutely not true for a GUI which could easily just be an opaque rendered canvas. The fact remains: TUIs are inherently legible in ways that GUIs are not guaranteed to be.
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Both false: you'll have NO indication if you read letters from different words out of order!
You'll not understand whether 'o' is a value or a continuation of the column name even in the primitive example above, and for anything even remotely complicated it's even worse.
> This is absolutely not true for a GUI which could easily just be an opaque rendered canvas. Are you not aware of OCR? Besides, GUIs have special accessibility tools, which almost none of the TUIs have, so your opaque canvas isn't universal.
> The fact remains:
That's a myth, not a fact, and you fail to establish "the fact" even in the most basic example