Boost.Program_options VS Ncurses

Compare Boost.Program_options vs Ncurses and see what are their differences.

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Boost.Program_options Ncurses
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97 397
- 1.0%
5.5 1.2
10 days ago about 1 year ago
C++ C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Boost.Program_options

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boost.Program_options. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.

Ncurses

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ncurses. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • How to make a TUI library for linux?
    1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 28 Sep 2022
    If you want to know how those libraries work you can dig into the implementations of them, for example https://github.com/mirror/ncurses.
  • Looking for help listing files required by a package which are installed by a different package
    1 project | /r/Gentoo | 2 Sep 2022
    $ e-file /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux [I] sys-libs/ncurses Seen Versions: 5.9-r2 6.0-r1 6.1-r2 6.1-r3 6.1_p20181020 6.1_p20181020_rc73 6.1_p20190609 6.2-r1 6.2_p20210123 6.2_p20210619 6.3 6.3_p20211106 6.3_p20211106-r1 6.3_p20220423 6.3_p20220423-r1 Portage Versions: 6.3_p20220423 6.3_p20220827 6.3_p20220827-r1 Installed Versions: 6.3_p20220423(Tue Jun 28 08:51:34 2022) Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ Description: Console display library Matched Files: /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Boost.Program_options and Ncurses you can also consider the following projects:

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

termbox - Library for writing text-based user interfaces

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:

Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

conan - Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

CLI11 - CLI11 is a command line parser for C++11 and beyond that provides a rich feature set with a simple and intuitive interface.

docopt.cpp - C++11 port of docopt

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).