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Top 23 C++ Terminal Projects

  1. Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

    Project mention: Edit is now open source | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-19

    Please fix this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16921 (or better yet, rewrite the whole thing in Rust)

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  3. ConEmu

    Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more

  4. 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

    Project mention: Introducing TUISIC: TUI Music Streaming App. | dev.to | 2025-01-19

    But then i'm an engineer and doing things in organize manner is what i am supposed to do. And one day i came to this repo FXTUI a fantastic C++ library for creating terminal user interfaces, so i started building tuisic.

  5. Clipboard

    😎🏖️🐬 Your new, 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 smart clipboard manager

  6. musikcube

    a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

    Project mention: Show HN: Kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-04

    I personally use a self hosted musikcube server [0] for playing songs. It has a great TUI and an android app. Highly recommended!

    [0] - https://musikcube.com/

  7. Eternal Terminal

    Re-Connectable secure remote shell

  8. SaaSHub

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  9. vtm

    Text-based desktop environment

    Project mention: Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-07
  10. console

    This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8/10 and a better visual rendering. (by cbucher)

  11. contour

    Modern C++ Terminal Emulator (by christianparpart)

    Project mention: Ghostty 1.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-26
  12. 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.

    Project mention: DOjS – A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-02

    Not exactly what you're looking for, but there's Shell in a Box (see https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox), that can create a terminal on a web page, and expose an actual terminal application running on a server.

    One thing that is certainly doable is also to use a standard TUI framework in another language (there are many of them, e.g. https://github.com/magiblot/tvision for C++, https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea for Go, etc.), compile it to WASM, and find how to bridge the WASM output to the browser (I've seen this: https://github.com/cryptool-org/wasm-webterm, but never tried it).

  13. timg

    A terminal image and video viewer.

    Project mention: Programming with ChatGPT | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-28

    > But to make that decision, I need to see the images. I could run a bash script to generate those images in a bunch of different qualities and then view them with some kind of image viewer, but that's extra steps - and it involves creating a bunch of temporary files that I then need to clean up.

    That's not correct at all. You can, in fact, do all of these steps in a single command line program with Konsole (or iTerm2 on Mac, or Kitty - whatever terminal you're using, as long as it supports these features), imagemagick, and bash.

    $ for size in $(seq 10 10 100); do; convert -resize $size% input.png output_$size.webp; timg output_$size.webp; done

    timg, here, is https://github.com/hzeller/timg, but you could use anything that speaks iTerm2 or kitty. This approach generalizes easily, too; you can easily use this to vary any parameter imagemagick supports, like webp compression or posterization or dithering, and print out any parameters of the image, like size, along with the image itself.

    > With the web version I can snap a screenshot with CleanShot X and then drag that screenshot straight onto the web page. I instantly see the different images, pick one that looks good to me, download that and then drag it into my S3 uploading software (Transmit).

    In my workflow, I edit in Showfoto or Darktable, resize (or, in my case, more often dither and resize) as demonstrated, and then `cp` the appropriate selected image into my blog's main image folder. Hardly more difficult, and while you might not enjoy it, that's exactly my point - we can both make things we like, but you're asserting that LLMs massively changed the landscape overall, while I'm not using them at all.

  14. tabulate

    Table Maker for Modern C++ (by p-ranav)

  15. FabGL

    ESP32 Display Controller (VGA, PAL/NTSC Color Composite, SSD1306, ST7789, ILI9341), PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Controller, Graphics Library, Sound Engine, Game Engine and ANSI/VT Terminal

    Project mention: Minimal 64x4 Home Computer | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-22

    Display controllers from the 8-bit era were simple conceptually but had a huge parts count, particularly it needs to have memory access logic very similar to what is in the microprocessor. The earliest home computers (TRS-80 Model I, Apple II) had a large parts count which was reduced in the next generation (TRS-80 Color Computer, VIC-20) because the glue logic and display controllers got the same LSI [1] treatment as the CPU.

    People who build modern real-hardware fantasy computers [2] struggle with the cost of the display controller if it is done in an authentic style so they wind up using an FPGA or microcontroller (amazingly easy to do with ESP32 [3])

    This thing addresses the problem by reusing many of the parts between the CPU and display controller, plus the contrast is not so stark since the CPU part count is greater than 1, unlike the typical retrocomputer.

    It's fascinating! It's a minicomputer in the sense that it is built out of low-integration parts, but it is like a microcomputer in important ways, particularly having the closely integrated display controller.

    [1] https://vaibhav-pawale19.medium.com/integrated-circuits-ssi-...

    [2] http://www.commanderx16.com/

    [3] https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL

  16. rang

    A Minimal, Header only Modern c++ library for terminal goodies 💄✨

  17. im-select

    📟 Switch your input method through terminal

  18. FINAL CUT

    The modern text-based widget toolkit.

  19. termcolor

    Termcolor is a header-only C++ library for printing colored messages to the terminal. Written just for fun with a help of the Force.

  20. neo

    Simulates the digital rain from "The Matrix" (CMatrix clone with 32-bit color and Unicode support) (by st3w)

    Project mention: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-03
  21. TermOx

    C++20 Terminal User Interface (TUI) Library.

  22. peaclock

    A responsive and customizable clock, timer, and stopwatch for the terminal.

  23. turbo

    An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision. (by magiblot)

  24. mentals-ai

    No code AI agents

    Project mention: LangChain has terrible abstractions? Try this | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-24
  25. SaaSHub

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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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Terminal projects in C++? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Windows Terminal 98,230
2 lnav 8,751
3 ConEmu 8,746
4 FTXUI 8,230
5 Clipboard 5,214
6 musikcube 4,428
7 Eternal Terminal 3,150
8 vtm 3,044
9 console 2,932
10 contour 2,666
11 Turbo Vision 2,201
12 timg 2,201
13 tabulate 2,013
14 FabGL 1,556
15 rang 1,532
16 im-select 1,127
17 FINAL CUT 1,074
18 termcolor 868
19 neo 750
20 TermOx 730
21 peaclock 614
22 turbo 539
23 mentals-ai 433

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