> particularly if your userbase often has literally decades worth of muscle memory
My experience from informally inquiries shows that users value fast TUIs regardless of the experience they amounted. Even the young mainframe and (rarer) Clipper users I talk to report preferring these systems over newer, web-based ones.
I worked in the travel industry, and the old TUI was much more efficient at several tasks than any GUI that we could provide.
As developers we should show some sympathy, but some of my co workers didn't see it that way. They complained about the old TUI, while they themselves preferred using a terminal for git and other tools that actually have most of the functionality that they need in a GUI
> As developers we should show some sympathy, but some of my co workers didn't see it that way. They complained about the old TUI, while they themselves preferred using a terminal for git and other tools that actually have most of the functionality that they need in a GUI
At least for git, I prefer a terminal as well. git is easy enough to shoot yourself in the foot when you're using it in a terminal, but git GUIs tend to abstract away so much for anything more complex than "git commit/push/pull" that it's even easier, and way harder to recover from.
My experience from informally inquiries shows that users value fast TUIs regardless of the experience they amounted. Even the young mainframe and (rarer) Clipper users I talk to report preferring these systems over newer, web-based ones.