ncurses VS termbox

Compare ncurses vs termbox and see what are their differences.

ncurses

snapshots of ncurses - see http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html (no pull requests are accepted) (by ThomasDickey)
GUI

termbox

Library for writing text-based user interfaces (by nsf)
CLI
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ncurses termbox
2 8
66 1,941
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7.8 0.0
11 days ago over 3 years ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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ncurses

Posts with mentions or reviews of ncurses. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-30.

termbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of termbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ncurses and termbox you can also consider the following projects:

PDCurses - A curses library for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model.

Ncurses - ncurses Git mirror

newt - Mirror of https://pagure.io/newt.git

args - A simple header-only C++ argument parser library. Supposed to be flexible and powerful, and attempts to be compatible with the functionality of the Python standard argparse library (though not necessarily the API).

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

docopt.cpp - C++11 port of docopt

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

gflags - The gflags package contains a C++ library that implements commandline flags processing. It includes built-in support for standard types such as string and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they are used. Online documentation available at:

Turbo Vision - A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.

rang - A Minimal, Header only Modern c++ library for terminal goodies 💄✨

wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

jarro2783/cxxopts - Lightweight C++ command line option parser