If we are going to broaden this to Screen and its "TUI" style features, then the most complete effort at a programmable TUI in the Linux space I've seen is `des

If we are going to broaden this to Screen and its "TUI" style features, then the most complete effort at a programmable TUI in the Linux space I've seen is `desktop-tui`. https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui It is incomplete but takes what is almost a side aspect of TWIN and runs with it. https://github.com/cosmos72/twin https://github.com/cosmos72/twin TWIN is nearly 20 now and does quite a lot. It even has a Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system) It runs on lots more OSes than just Linux.