As an alternative to ncurses, I encourage you to look at termbox[1]. It's small, minimal, and very robust in my experience. (As a side note, the author also wro

As an alternative to ncurses, I encourage you to look at termbox[1]. It's small, minimal, and very robust in my experience. (As a side note, the author also wrote a text editor in Go that uses it.) [1] https://github.com/nsf/termbox https://github.com/nsf/termbox