reflex-vty VS notcurses

Compare reflex-vty vs notcurses and see what are their differences.

reflex-vty

Build terminal applications using functional reactive programming (FRP) with Reflex FRP. (by reflex-frp)

notcurses

blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses. (by dankamongmen)
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reflex-vty notcurses
1 102
136 3,246
2.2% -
7.8 7.2
26 days ago 3 days ago
Haskell C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Apache License 2.0
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reflex-vty

Posts with mentions or reviews of reflex-vty. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-15.
  • Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2021
    There's a slick little Haskell library that does something similar called reflex-vty:

    https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-vty#reflex-vty

    One thing neither of these libraries appear to have done yet that I would really like is create a more compact window rendering. Currently each window gets a 1-character border. What I would like is something that saves space by collapsing adjacent windows' borders into a single character instead of having two redundant borders next to each other. Of course I get why they do it the way they do, but terminals are often more constrained for space and with complex UIs you can lose a fair amount due to these unnecessary borders. That would be the next thing I'd hack on to improve these kinds of libraries. But alas...too many fun projects to hack on and not enough hours in the day.

notcurses

Posts with mentions or reviews of notcurses. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing reflex-vty and notcurses you can also consider the following projects:

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

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

xterm.js - A terminal for the web

sixvid - Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels

tcell - Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.

awesome-tuis - List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

sixel-tmux - sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

magma-nvim - Interact with Jupyter from NeoVim.

dashing - Terminal dashboards for Python

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.