Live TUIs: bringing the AJAX experience to terminal apps
What should we call a terminal app where one pane can refresh while you keep working in another? I'm proposing "Live TUI." The pattern is a persistent terminal workspace. Panes stream data and update independently. A task shows its own loading or progress state, so waiting on that task does not block the whole interface. AJAX is the analogy I keep coming back to: partial updates that leave the surrounding interface usable. In a terminal app, the useful question is what the person can keep doing…