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I like termbox. I'm the Ada binding maintainer. A quick search and you can find many other language bindings. https://github.com/bmsauer/termbox-ada
https://github.com/chjj/blessed is a curses-like library with a high level terminal interface API for node.js. It also has impressive demos.
The terminal is not meant to be existing. You are emulating 80 year old technology at the base of it.
This looks pretty impressive: Terminal.Gui - Terminal GUI toolkit for .NET https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs Written by Miguel de Icaza. Hanselman wrote on it here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/Its2020AndItIsTimeForTextMode... and here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DotnetDependsIsAGreatTextMode...
I’m curious about what other people think about this one. I tried the demo in a few terminals a couple months ago and it didn’t work well in any of them.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick is popular in the Haskell world.
My favorite is the python-based Urwid library at http://www.urwid.org . It was a little hard for me to wrap my head around it at first, but once you get it, you can write TUI applications without a lot of code. Easy to install, many examples to work from.
How popular is it in the Python space? I loved the large text widget and would love to contribute with a font using the Teletext 2x3 mosaics that got into Unicode 13 (which are fully supported in VTE)
In the node ecosystem there are a few interesting ones. https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink for writing TUIs with react. Here's a project I wrote using that: https://github.com/zephraph/solitaire . It's not as powerful as ncurses, but it works rather well. If you want something more on par with ncurses try https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit
https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit This is the one that most catches my attention. Currently actively maintained plus it has something analagous to a document object model https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit/blob/master/doc/docu... Also Ink is incredibly interesting as it enables ReactJS for creating TUI apps - mind bending! https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink I can imagine the things above being combined wi…
- [commanderjs] lets you easily build ergonomic CLI apps (wires up --help and usage descriptions) --- https://github.com/tj/commander.js/
- [chalk] colors in the terminal --- https://github.com/chalk/chalk
- [figlet] big splash text --- https://www.npmjs.com/package/figlet
Two libraries for writing these games:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick is popular in the Haskell world.