newt vs ncurses

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newt		ncurses
	Project
4	Mentions	2
47	Stars	66
-	Growth	-
5.0	Activity	7.8
6 months ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

newt

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

Does anyone know what the tasksel UI is called?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 20 Jul 2022

Those text interfaces are generated using the newt library — most likely using the whiptail binary.
Newt library for TUI
1 project | /r/suckless | 18 Jul 2022

Are you referring to pagure.io/newt?
making menus
1 project | /r/C_Programming | 23 May 2022

The newt library is the basis for Debian's whiptail, which is a shell tool to generate text user interfaces.
newt alternatives - S-Lang, termbox, and Lanterna
4 projects | 30 Dec 2021

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.

ncurses alternatives - S-Lang, termbox, and rang
4 projects | 30 Dec 2021
notty alternatives - FINAL CUT, ncurses, and notty
4 projects | 28 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

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

Vaca - C++ Win32 wrapper to develop GUI apps

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

WTF - Windows Template Framework

Slint - Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint]

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.

curses - Crystal bindings to the curses library

wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

Ultra Engine Documentation - Documentation contents for Ultra Engine

libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.