I don't mean that entirely seriously but gawd...if the web browser doesn't seem emblematic and symbolic of everything that's stagnant and byzantine and wrong with contemporary Internet technology ~Chara
multimedia was a hubris
Every GUI toolkit has a half-life of 5 years before your code becomes unusable and is plagued by accessibility problems (actual, "screen readers can't parse your app" ones, not "this isn't a Google-Approved Flat Design and thus essentially unsuitable for the lumpenproletariat"). You know what's been stable for a couple decades and has excellent accessibility? ncurses. You can compile a curses app from the late 90s and it Just Works. 80char terminals with optional color are the only stable output device and the only thing we need to add is unicode.
Going back to TUI would also let us quit deploying Turing-complete end-user devices in big organizations. End-users don't need that kind of flexibility; they need a terminal that can run on a few AAs and has no writable persistent memory. End-user terminals don't need internet; they need a secured 115200 baud half-duplex link back to a computer that's being kept somewhere safe. we could fix "endpoint security" in a nice, tidy way, with proper engineering solutions instead of a thousand stupid bandaids on a general-purpose kernel. just imagine
