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Top 20 C Curse Projects
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vifm
Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
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I'm guessing that PC-Hack 1.0, the ancestor of Nethack, contains a fair subset of curses, and pdcurses is from 01987 according to the bottom of https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses/blob/master/docs/HISTOR.... But on the IBM, curses mostly solved the problem of porting Unix software to MS-DOS. The problems it solved on Unix, like minimizing characters transmitted to the terminal, papering over differences between terminal types, and setting cbreak mode, just didn't exist.
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nbsdgames
A package of 21 new, improved, text-based games. Some are entirely original ideas. Best and lightest!
Project mention: Show HN: NBSDgames – 21 new, improved, original text games for Unix, DOS, Plan9 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-10 -
multi-sdr-gps-sim
multi-sdr-gps-sim generates a IQ data stream on-the-fly to simulate a GPS L1 baseband signal using a SDR platform like HackRF or ADLAM-Pluto.
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netbsd-curses
libcurses and dependencies taken from netbsd and brought into a portable shape (at least to musl or glibc)
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g
g: A portable general purpose programmable text editor with calculator and macro facility. (by johnsonjh)
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Selene
Automation low level tool based on MQTT data. Optionnal backends to create "DRM/Cairo", "OLed", "LCD" or "Curses" graphical applications. (by destroyedlolo)
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YtreeNova an XTreeGold-inspired, FOSS keyboard-first Linux file manager built for fast, precise file work. Developed with AI assistance, but it does not run AI itself. https://github.com/robkam/ytreenova
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Project mention: Show HN: Ytree v3.0.0-alpha, an AI-assisted rewrite towards feature completeness | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-12
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Curses discussion
C Curses related posts
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Writing FreeDOS Programs in C
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PDCurses – for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model
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Vifm
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what lib use to write a TUI apps?
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How to make a GUI?
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does anyone know a game called opium wars?
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Terminal calculator recommendations
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Curse projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | vifm | 3,218 |
| 2 | PDCurses | 1,236 |
| 3 | ltui | 871 |
| 4 | termbox2 | 729 |
| 5 | bitwise | 717 |
| 6 | curses | 322 |
| 7 | nbsdgames | 302 |
| 8 | multi-sdr-gps-sim | 251 |
| 9 | sssnake | 231 |
| 10 | windows-curses | 213 |
| 11 | netbsd-curses | 166 |
| 12 | dopewars | 114 |
| 13 | g | 42 |
| 14 | linuxconio | 32 |
| 15 | cpaint | 31 |
| 16 | Selene | 27 |
| 17 | treedude | 18 |
| 18 | ytreenova | 11 |
| 19 | nc2048 | 6 |
| 20 | ytree | 2 |
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