I built a Slack TUI in Go in a week (24Mb binary, daily driver, images supported) (opens in new tab)

Slack was having a bad day on my machine. Typing :wave: was taking two seconds to autocomplete. Two seconds to autocomplete an emoji! The fan was spinning. The whole app felt sluggish. I have Slack running pretty much nonstop. Most people do. And the whole time I was watching that emoji dropdown crawl I kept thinking.. man, this is just text. Terminals are great at text. The tools I rely on every day - vim, btop, tig, k9s - are a joy to use. They are incredibly fast and responsive. They feel ...