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Maybe this is due to a lack of proper widget toolkits. Curses is a real pain to program, and creating sophisticated UIs with it is borderline impossible. Things
by ge0rg 11y ago
Maybe this is due to a lack of proper widget toolkits. Curses is a real pain to program, and creating sophisticated UIs with it is borderline impossible. Things like dialog are not very flexible, and TurboVision (the best looking CUI ever) never took off, probably because of the lame C port.
- creshal 11y agoTermbox is an "alternative", but it's, while easier to use, even more low-level. It's a shame there's no decent, modern high-level UI toolkit for terminals.
- ape4 11y agoThe screenshot here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses looks pretty nifty. But reading I see it has forms but no mention of widgets.
- zokier 11y agoAnd here I was thinking that the ease of programming was the main reason for ncurses to be as popular as it is. Oh well...