Great idea! After all why reinvent the wheel with TUI libraries built in a popular browser-based front-end javascript framework?

The same reason tar and dd and practically everything operates on blocks not bytes, plus the same reason the shell doesn&#x27;t act until eol delimiter, the opportunity to edit before submit.I think talk could get away with it because on a shared local host both sides are accessing the same local physical resource directly, no tcp packet per byte.

Yes, I&#x27;ve wondered many times why there are no modern (human to human) chat interfaces that implements that, rather than sentence by sentence.

I remember using talk back when first learning Linux in college. I enjoyed the character-by-character aspect of it.

I used talk back in 90ties and loved it and still missing it. Interfacing this with LLM is a nice touch.

Interesting chat widget in the corner.I&#x27;ve been looking for something similar I saw once, it was a chat widget connecting to everyone looking at the same webpage.But it was called something like &quot;aarrrgh!!&quot; (the pirate), and I can&#x27;t remember the name of the damn thing!

I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI