crysterm vs kakoune.cr

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crysterm		kakoune.cr
	Project
1	Mentions	3
112	Stars	50
0.0%	Growth	-
7.8	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Crystal	Language	Crystal
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	The Unlicense

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

crysterm

Posts with mentions or reviews of crysterm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-07.

Which ncurses bindings should I use under GNU/Linux ?
4 projects | /r/crystal_programming | 7 Aug 2021

I will recommend here another terminal library, not ncurses based, in case you or someone else find it useful, it's Crysterm and was shown in the Crystal conference last month so seems to be very active at the moment. Here is the video recording.

kakoune.cr

Posts with mentions or reviews of kakoune.cr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.

Trouble adding a Crystal application to nixpkgs
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 2 Mar 2021

I'm trying to add kakoune.cr to nixpkgs. I got as far as this. The problem now is that when I try nix-build -A kakoune-cr, I get a strange error message.
kakoune.cr
3 projects | /r/kakoune | 24 Feb 2021

Currently, there is no big change for end users. You can conveniently create a named session with kcr shell and connect with kcr fzf shell then kcr attach.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crysterm and kakoune.cr you can also consider the following projects:

ncurses-crystal - ncurses bindings for crystal

fancyline - Readline-esque library with fancy features

ncurses.cr - NCurses bindings for Crystal

oq - A performant, and portable jq wrapper to facilitate the consumption and output of formats other than JSON; using jq filters to transform the data.

ncurses - Ncurses bindings for Crystal

connect.kak - Connect a program to Kakoune clients

myecs - my ECS(Entity-Component-System) framework in Crystal

amber - A Crystal web framework that makes building applications fast, simple, and enjoyable. Get started with quick prototyping, less bugs, and blazing fast performance.

queryit - A very basic setupless terminal based SQL query runner meant to be used as a developer tool to test queries against a project database.

fifo.cr - A Crystal library for using FIFOs

form_builder.cr - Dead simple HTML form builder for Crystal with built-in support for many popular UI libraries such as Bootstrap

cride - A light CLI text editor/IDE written in Crystal