flatui vs termbox2

flatui

Efficient Immediate Mode UI for Games (by google)

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termbox2

suckless terminal rendering library (by termbox)

Terminal Terminfo Termcap Ncurses Curses TUI

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flatui		termbox2
	Project
2	Mentions	4
616	Stars	304
-	Growth	6.9%
10.0	Activity	6.7
almost 5 years ago	Latest Commit	21 days ago
C++	Language	C
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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.

flatui

Posts with mentions or reviews of flatui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.

[Cpp] Une assez grande liste de bibliothèques graphiques C ++
22 projects | /r/enfrancais | 14 Feb 2023

FlatUI
Alternative to ncurses for modern C++ (TUI)
7 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 6 Jun 2022

Curses is the de facto TUI base, but there is no de facto standard C++ wrapper around curses. Google has FlatUI, FTXUI and Notcurses are popular, imtui is directly inspired by Dear ImGui. The list goes on and on, there are plenty of popular TUI libraries that all build upon Curses.

termbox2

Posts with mentions or reviews of termbox2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

what lib use to write a TUI apps?
2 projects | /r/C_Programming | 7 Dec 2023

Have you looked into termbox? https://github.com/termbox/termbox2
Mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2022

I saw this editor recently as a consequence of noticing that there seems to be a rewrite of the termbox library (ncurses alternative) in progress: https://github.com/termbox/termbox2
Alternative to ncurses for modern C++ (TUI)
7 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 6 Jun 2022
Termbox2
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flatui and termbox2 you can also consider the following projects:

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

TuiCss - Text-based user interface CSS library

MiniGUI - A modern and mature cross-platform window system for embedded systems and smart IoT devices.

cpaint - https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220220.html

ruis - :dog: GUI library in C++

dte - A small, configurable console text editor (mirrored from https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte)

Ultralight - Lightweight, high-performance HTML renderer for game and app developers.

mle - flexible terminal-based text editor (C)

FLTK - FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development

csope - Fork of Cscope version 15.9, with various improvements, because cscope is good and shall not be forgotten. While the original's mainentence seems abandoned and as far as I can tell you need a PhD in autoconf to compile the latest version, Csope is alive and well.

cegui - Crazy Eddie's GUI library is a versatile, fast, adjustable, multi-platform, C++ library for creating graphical user interfaces for games and rendering applications

Tandy-Terminfo - UNIX terminfo for TRS-80 Model 100 and Tandy 200 allowing screen control for TELCOM