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This sounds like an opportunity for somebody write a backwards-compatible ncurses replacement in a modern systems language. I promise to try using whichever la
by sevensor 10y ago
This sounds like an opportunity for somebody write a backwards-compatible ncurses replacement in a modern systems language. I promise to try using whichever language manages to do this first.
- duskwuff 10y agoOr even in C! The (n)curses API is ancient -- it dates back to the early 1980s, and has not changed much since then. We've learned a lot about API design over the last 30+ years; we could do much better today.
- sevensor 10y agoFair point, and today's C is far from what it was in the '80s! Regardless, this is an excellent project for a programming language shootout --- ncurses is well overdue for a rewrite, and I'd love to see the C++17 partisans take on the Rust fans, the Go-ers, and the C diehards.