You absolutely can. That said, if your application is to look quite static and you don't really need the game-style render-loop, you could use Termbox directly

You absolutely can. That said, if your application is to look quite static and you don't really need the game-style render-loop, you could use Termbox directly (it's great): https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go