Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]

• notcurses

  102 3,288 7.6 C

  blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

The author of Notcurses released version 3.0.0 several days ago, a ton of work went into that!

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v3.0....

• FINAL CUT

  29 934 8.8 C++

  A text-based widget toolkit.

Not exactly what you’re describing, but check out Final Cut: https://github.com/gansm/finalcut

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• teliva

  11 162 2.7 C

  Fork of Lua 5.1 to encourage end-user programming

with chromatic backgrounds deserve whatever happens to them."

That's a lot of cognitive dissonance in a work about UI design. Let's try to do better in making TUIs mainstream. That requires encouraging people to use the few features terminals _do_ provide.

I've been doing a fair amount of ncurses hacking recently[1], and I prefer to always explicitly specify colors. People won't get their preferred colors by default, but they'll always get a legible configuration by default.

[1] https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

• entr

  47 4,028 6.8 C

  Run arbitrary commands when files change

In a similar vein, "entr" (https://github.com/eradman/entr) relaunches any CLI command whenever the specified files/directory changes, with the possibility to clear the screen every time.

Suggest a related project