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by thehamkercat8 hours ago |
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upvoteby g947o8 hours ago|
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Great question, and my guess:

If you build React in C++ and Rust, even if the framework is there, you'll likely need to write your components in C++/Rust. That is a difficult problem. There are actually libraries out there that allow you to build web UI with Rust, although they are for web (+ HTML/CSS) and not specifically CLI stuff.

So someone needs to create such a library that is properly maintained and such. And you'll likely develop slower in Rust compared to JS.

These companies don't see a point in doing that. So they just use whatever already exists.

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upvoteby shoeb00m7 hours ago|
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Opencode wrote their own tui library in zig, and then build a solidjs library on top of that.

https://github.com/anomalyco/opentui

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upvoteby g947o4 hours ago|
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This has nothing to do with React style UI building.
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upvoteby Philpax7 hours ago|
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Those Rust libraries have existed for some time:

- https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui

- https://github.com/ccbrown/iocraft

- https://crates.io/crates/dioxus-tui

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upvoteby g947o4 hours ago|
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Where is React? These are TUI libraries, which are not the same thing
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upvoteby Philpax4 hours ago|
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iocraft and dioxus-tui implement the React model, or derivatives of it.
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upvoteby pdntspa4 hours ago|
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and why do they need react...
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upvoteby Philpax4 hours ago|
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That's actually relatively understandable. The React model (not necessarily React itself) of compositional reactive one-way data binding has become dominant in UI development over the last decade because it's easy to work with and does not require you to keep track of the state of a retained UI.

Most modern UI systems are inspired by React or a variant of its model.

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upvoteby azinman28 hours ago|
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Why does it matter if Claude Code opens in 3-4 seconds if everything you do with it can take many seconds to minutes? Seems irrelevant to me.
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upvoteby RohMin7 hours ago|
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I guess with ~50 years of CPU advancements, 3-4 seconds for a TUI to open makes it seem like we lost the plot somewhere along the way.
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upvoteby strange_quark7 hours ago|
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Don’t forget they’ve also publicly stated (bragged?) about the monumental accomplishment of getting some text in a terminal to render at 60fps.
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upvoteby mbesto6 hours ago|
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This is exactly the type of thing that AI code writers don't do well - understand the prioritization of feature development.

Some developers say 3-4 seconds are important to them, others don't. Who decides what the truth is? A human? ClawdBot?

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upvoteby wahnfrieden8 hours ago|
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Because when the agent is taking many seconds to minutes, I am starting new agents instead of waiting or switching to non-agent tasks
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upvoteby shoeb00m7 hours ago|
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codex cli is missing a bunch of ux features like resizing on terminal size change.

Opencode's core is actually written in zig, only ui orchestration is in solidjs. It's only slightly slower to load than neo-vim on my system.

https://github.com/anomalyco/opentui

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upvoteby bdangubic4 hours ago|
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50ms to open and then 2hrs to solve a simple problem vs 4s to open and then 5m to solve a problem, eh?
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upvoteby wahnfrieden8 hours ago|
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Codex team made the right call to rewrite its TypeScript to Rust early on
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