How difficult could it be to make a console program that looks like this and has a game loop running on a separate thread? Any suggestions or crate recommendations are welcome!

• crossterm

  28 2,964 6.8 Rust

  Cross platform terminal library rust

  

For the terminal part you could use https://crates.io/crates/crossterm

• tui-rs

  68 10,829 4.7 Rust

  Discontinued Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

You could use https://crates.io/crates/tui

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• bracket-lib

  27 1,449 0.0 Rust

  The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.

  

I've been doing some experiments with terminal based games and landed on https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib It's not exactly terminal based in the sense that it actually runs on OpenGL by default. But that's a plus imho because dealing with the bits of the terminal window that can change outside of your control (like fonts, window resize, etc) is a giant pita. It does let you swap the backend to run on crossterm if that's what you really want to do but if what you're after is the aesthetic like I am having bracket_lib handling all that makes life so much better.

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