awesome-tuis VS notcurses

Compare awesome-tuis vs notcurses and see what are their differences.

awesome-tuis

List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces (by rothgar)

notcurses

blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses. (by dankamongmen)
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awesome-tuis notcurses
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17 days ago 3 days ago
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awesome-tuis

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-tuis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-08.
  • Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023
    > Editing multiline inputs is awful.

    Outside of "line at a time" i/o (a rarely used mode where an entire line is edited locally and then sent to the host), most of what users see is as interactive is controlled by the program you are interacting with. The terminal just takes commands from the host and does what it is told. BTW, line at a time mode isn't used that much. The only thing I use that uses line at a time mode is telenet in LINEMODE.

    > Navigating history is so-so

    Yes, that is because the program you are likely interacting with where history is relevant implements it's own repl or command line (i.e. bash, zsh, python, etc...) and it is responsible for it's own history and may implement it completely differently than say, bash or zsh.

    > Why are terminals always stuck in the 70s? Can I get a modern terminal?

    We do have a modern terminal: the web browser... and it's pretty nice.

    There have been a ton of tries at more modern terminals, but ultimately, they end up really being limited by the software running in the terminal session. In the 90s we had a ton of commercial terminal emulators that would allow you to create full guis, complete with dialogs and forms. In the 00's there were a few tries at terminals that would allow html output and embedding of html forms for input (can't remember the names of them). I suppose there's also the whole X11 thing... which is so good enough that it's really hard to kill.

    Let's get back to character mode:

    A lot of interactive terminal software is built using different libraries - so sometimes you get a terminal gui based on ncurses, terminal.gui, or something else... here's a list: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis#libraries. Most of these libraries try to use most of the features in your terminal emulator, but often, just use stuff that is in everything.

    For command line programs (i.e. just type a command), a lot of the experience is dictated by the parser used by the tool and whatever the underlying operating system has for passing arguments. Some shells and terminal emulators (like iTerm2 on mac) try to smooth this out, but again, there's a lot of variety in command line parsers.

    Probably the biggest modern improvement in the shell world was gettext and various command-line completion libraries which allows command parameter completion if the developer supports it or uses a parser that supports completion. But none of this is the terminal itself doing the work.

  • What can you do in a terminal?
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 7 Mar 2023
    Check out this list of great TUI projects if you really want to see what terminal only is capable of.
  • I wrote a TUI snake game in BASH v5.1+
    4 projects | /r/linux | 10 Jan 2023
    This looks really cool! Would you mind PRing it to my awesome TUIs list? https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
  • Awesome CLI & TUI Applications Directory site
    8 projects | /r/commandline | 19 Nov 2022
    See also: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
  • Are there any TUI apps you recommend outside of ncdu / nnn / htop / vim / bat / fd / tig / duf?
    22 projects | /r/commandline | 12 Oct 2022
    Here's a good list
  • What's the most beautifully designed TUI-app you've used?
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 27 Sep 2022
    Have a browse at the awesome-tui list and in the reddit search bar: this question is asked quite often and there are already plenty of answers :)
  • [Possibly OT] Is there a list of command-line versions of any Unix/Linux GUI applications?
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 19 Jul 2022
    https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps and https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis? Though it doesn't mention a specific GUI apps (eg, Lynx is under either Web Browser or Web on those lists), and it's just lists, no actual comparison or review etc. I usually found AlternativeTo to be somewhat decent start to see what features and alternatives I can expect across platform.
  • Hacker News top posts: Mar 17, 2022
    6 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 17 Mar 2022
    TUIs\ (155 comments)
  • TUIs
    2 projects | /r/hackernews | 16 Mar 2022
    33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2022
    Github still has atom feeds for repos, for example: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis/commits/master.atom Unfortunately they don't really make links to these feeds very visible in the UI anymore. But toss that in your feed reader of choice and you'll get an update when the awesome list content changes.

notcurses

Posts with mentions or reviews of notcurses. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing awesome-tuis and notcurses you can also consider the following projects:

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

FTXUI - Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang

xterm.js - A terminal for the web

sixvid - Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels

tcell - Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

sixel-tmux - sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

magma-nvim - Interact with Jupyter from NeoVim.

dashing - Terminal dashboards for Python

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

ansi-escapes-python - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal