I&#x27;ve become a big fan of ncurses software over the years without really realising. Newsbeuter, irssi, cmus&#x2F;mocp, vim, mutt. It&#x27;s the resource efficiency and speed of use that make the difference with their shiny UI counterparts. That and still having a GUI, albeit a minimum viable GUI.<p>It has inspired me more than once to pick up K&amp;R&#x27;s C and have a stab at a tool of my own that I&#x27;d love to have - but it&#x27;s way down on the current list of priorities.<p>...Now wondering why the question - are you working on something?<p>EDIT: Forgot a special mention for Finch (pidgin client), which along with the others runs nicely on Tmux (another forgotten mention) on a perma-on server. Rpi2 in my case.