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I recently posted in last week's sharing saturday, introducing myself and my new project Age of Bronze and Iron, an ancient-greece themed Roguelike which I recently began using the textbook python+libtcod tut. I would really like to ditch libtcod in favor of a genuine text-mode display library. To that end I've looked around at the different options and think I have decided, after reading the documentation, to give it a try using blessed, since it seems featureful and (most important for a newbie with relatively limited time) easy to use.
Someone else said much the same, and I've read it in other threads, so I guess I'll probably stick with tcod for that stuff. I found this on github, and it seems like it might be workable, but there's quite clearly nothing like the community engagement that libtcod has, so I assume there's a reason for that.
iterm2, gnome terminal, xterm, Konsole, macos Terminal, powershell, command, etc.. these all provide a common API which we normally use curses to interface with. But all of them basically reach into something lower level (opengl, vulkan, directx, etc.) to render the text, which ultimately is still pixels on a screen.
Well, my current plan is to use one of the more modern curses-replacements (I'm thinking of blessed, a blessings fork), since they seem a lot easier to use than curses. If I hit a speed bottleneck with blessed, the plan is to switch over to curses...
The most advanced terminal library I know is Notcurses (https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses).