nfd2 vs ncurses-rs

nfd2

OS native dialogs for Windows, MacOS, and Linux (by EmbarkStudios)

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ncurses-rs

A low-level ncurses wrapper for Rust (by jeaye)

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nfd2		ncurses-rs
	Project
-	Mentions	4
32	Stars	663
-	Growth	-
3.2	Activity	0.0
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Rust	Language	Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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nfd2

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

ncurses-rs

Posts with mentions or reviews of ncurses-rs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-22.

Is there any way to host an executable/application REMOTELY that anyone with a terminal can run/interact with without any installation? Currently, I'm limited to CURLable web scripts, but those are tedious and don't have interactable menus or animations or anything.
5 projects | /r/commandline | 22 May 2022

Which language do you use? Here is a Rust implementation of an SSH server. It handles opening the port to listen, creating the client connection, and retrieving data from the client (using getch). Then you can funnel that to an NCurses libraryand send the output back to the user
Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (39/2021)!
7 projects | /r/rust | 27 Sep 2021

Maybe this https://crates.io/crates/ncurses can help.
Terminal application development
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 27 Jul 2021
Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (13/2021)!
15 projects | /r/rust | 29 Mar 2021

There is a Dependents tab on each crate. Dependents of ncurses: https://crates.io/crates/ncurses/reverse_dependencies

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nfd2 and ncurses-rs you can also consider the following projects:

Native Windows GUI - A light windows GUI toolkit for rust

Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion

nfd-rs - OS-native file dialogs on Linux, OS X and Windows

Cursive - A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language

autopy - A simple, cross-platform GUI automation module for Python and Rust.

druid - A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.

QML-rust - QML (Qt Quick) bindings for Rust language

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]

imgui-rs - Rust bindings for Dear ImGui