Fair 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

Fair 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.