xmake
🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (by xmake-io)
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 (by ArthurSonzogni)
| xmake | FTXUI | |
|---|---|---|
| 166 | 39 | |
| 9,062 | 6,151 | |
| 5.2% | - | |
| 10.0 | 8.2 | |
| 5 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| Lua | C++ | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
xmake
Posts with mentions or reviews of xmake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-04.
- Xmake: A modern C/C++ build tool
- Cpp2 and cppfront – An experimental 'C++ syntax 2' and its first compiler
- An Introduction to Modern CMake
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How to Structure C Projects: These Best Practices Worked for Me
In recent times I prefer Xmake[0] to CMake.
[0] https://xmake.io
- xmake: Fast and lightweight build tools with dependency package integration
- Xmake v2.8.5 released, Support for link sorting and unit testing
- Xmake v2.8.3 Released, Improve Wasm and Support Xmake Source Debugging
- Xmake v2.8.2 Released, Official package repository count over 1k
FTXUI
Posts with mentions or reviews of FTXUI.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.
- Functional Terminal User Interface
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C++ Game Utility Libraries: for Game Dev Rustaceans
GitHub repo: ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI
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Library for NES style terminal game.
Background: I want to make a NES Tetris) clone for the terminal, with full resolution, this is achievable through using this ▀ character, and defining back and foreground color. This would result in a 1x2 pixel and by making the game width 256x120 characters this would provide full resolution. I made some tests, creating my own encoding for the different sprites and optimizing everything, which resulted in very quick printing times, even with a normal terminal. Nearly fast enough for the full 60Hz that the NES has, when printing the whole screen. The fact that i don't need to reprint the background (except maybe a tetris), makes 60Hz a kinda realistic goal. My main concern is, that there could occur kind of a screen tearing effect, which i really want to avoid. AFAIK, ncurses has a way to print the whole "window" with a function call to avoid this issue, however I had a lot of issues when trying to use ncurses to print the entire background and figured, that there are better alternatives. I also tried FTXUI and whilst the experience of giving each "pixel" a fore- and background color was much better, i didn't quite find a way to refresh the screen like ncurses. (i think there is some kind of way with the ScreenInteractive class, but i didn't get that to work, and it seemed like there was not a way to color each pixel. with InteractiveScreen you can make your own components with the whole "text()" thing, but this isn't really what i need)
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Should I give up?
Try this library for console https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI
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Cross platform terminal UI?
Depends on which level of "UI" you want. Personally I like https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI , but if you want to do those old TUI things then probably the (n/pd)curses libraries.
- Function composition in modern C++
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What are some C++ projects with high quality code that I can read through?
I find openMVG very decent, FTXUI might be a good one and nlohmann's json library is also pretty nice. I don't really know of any project that strictly adheres to the core guidelines, except maybe for some of Jason Turner's (sample) projects.
- Owl: A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir
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I have made a physics simulator that replicates projectile motion with quadratic drag! Please feel free to download and compile it. Let me know of any bugs!
Okay stupid suggestion I know but I've recently been learning the FTX UI library which basically adds a little bit of UI programming to the terminal and it has canvas that lets you plot pixel by pixel.
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Text UI components like “ncurses”
No affiliation with any ponzi schemes https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xmake and FTXUI you can also consider the following projects:
meson - The Meson Build System
ncurses - snapshots of ncurses - see https://invisible-island.net/personal/git-exports.html (no pull requests are accepted)
cmake-init - The missing CMake project initializer
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
conan - Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager
notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
ninja - a small build system with a focus on speed
imtui - ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface C++ Library
wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library
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.