Plan 9 is text first as it was written by Unix programmers who wanted to build an OS and write programs (Rob wanted a better text editor.) It's the OG TUI. Window managers like Rio can run in Rio. You control things by writing textual messages from the command line, scripts, or code, e.g 'echo 100 >/dev/volume' to set audio volume to 100%. Someone wrote a new WM called Lola so I ran Lola in Rio in Lola in Rio because I can. Sam is very much a keyboard driven modern TUI ed (the standard editor). Acme is a mouse driven TUI editor. Both can be automated by programs and scripts. You can edit text while reading your email and chatting on irc from within Acme.
BUT Lots of stuff missing. We don't yet have GPU accel. It's a MSSIVE undertaking. And it has to be carefully designed and would likely be a built around a generalized devcompute kernel device.
X is well past its sell-by date.
Plan 9 is text first as it was written by Unix programmers who wanted to build an OS and write programs (Rob wanted a better text editor.) It's the OG TUI. Window managers like Rio can run in Rio. You control things by writing textual messages from the command line, scripts, or code, e.g 'echo 100 >/dev/volume' to set audio volume to 100%. Someone wrote a new WM called Lola so I ran Lola in Rio in Lola in Rio because I can. Sam is very much a keyboard driven modern TUI ed (the standard editor). Acme is a mouse driven TUI editor. Both can be automated by programs and scripts. You can edit text while reading your email and chatting on irc from within Acme.
BUT Lots of stuff missing. We don't yet have GPU accel. It's a MSSIVE undertaking. And it has to be carefully designed and would likely be a built around a generalized devcompute kernel device.