Ink is great for CLI tools and enables really great tools. People who are saying React only belongs on DOM are missing out- React is the world's most popular and powerful declarative programming paradigm. It's being used for native apps, VR, 3d, CAD and electronics.
React allows you to mix declarative and imperative programming concepts together in an effective way. To give a sense of why this is important: Imagine a CLI built with XML. It'd probably be pretty verbose and have a lot of domain-specific configuration. There also wouldn't be a great typechecker. React combines the most robust type-system in the world (Typescript) with declarative style. It has issues, but being "built for DOM/web" is not one of them.
RE: Ink. A simple example of where it is better than most tools is you can simply import a re-usable "ranger-style" file browsing component, and adapt it for things like exploring a database, a spreadsheet, or an API spec. The potential is very high. Hats off to the author and contributors!!
React allows you to mix declarative and imperative programming concepts together in an effective way. To give a sense of why this is important: Imagine a CLI built with XML. It'd probably be pretty verbose and have a lot of domain-specific configuration. There also wouldn't be a great typechecker. React combines the most robust type-system in the world (Typescript) with declarative style. It has issues, but being "built for DOM/web" is not one of them.
RE: Ink. A simple example of where it is better than most tools is you can simply import a re-usable "ranger-style" file browsing component, and adapt it for things like exploring a database, a spreadsheet, or an API spec. The potential is very high. Hats off to the author and contributors!!