Is there a de-facto standard of C++ TUI library?

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  • 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

    I'm very much a beginner in C++ but I saw FXTUI linked in the sub not too long ago. Looks great and well documented.

  • notcurses

    blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

    Don't forget notcurses, which is definitely better than nurses. Also feature wise. See https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses :)

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  • TermOx

    C++17 Terminal User Interface(TUI) Library.

    I found https://github.com/a-n-t-h-o-n-y/TermOx . Is there a more famous one?

  • 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.

    There is a port, https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

  • libyui

    Libyui is a widget abstraction library providing Qt, GTK and ncurses frontends. Originally it was developed for YaST but it can be used in any independent project.

    check out https://github.com/libyui/libyui . It's quite powerful.

  • imtui

    ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface C++ Library

    I wouldn't call it standard, but https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui is pretty cool. It puts https://github.com/ocornut/imgui over ncurses.

  • imgui

    Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

    I wouldn't call it standard, but https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui is pretty cool. It puts https://github.com/ocornut/imgui over ncurses.

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  • FINAL CUT

    A text-based widget toolkit.

    https://github.com/gansm/finalcut is another

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