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BearLibTerminal vs ncurses

A side-by-side look at BearLibTerminal and ncurses. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

BearLibTerminal

BearLibTerminal

Games

BearLibTerminal is an easy-to-use terminal graphics library for roguelike games and ASCII art. It provides simple APIs for text output, keyboard/mouse input, and simple graphics.

terminalgraphicsroguelikeasciitextkeyboardmouseinputoutput
ncurses

ncurses

Development

ncurses (new curses) is a programming library that provides an API to display text-based user interfaces in a terminal. It offers functions to manipulate the text, colors, and cursor to create interfaces like menus, forms, and more.

textbasedterminaluser-interfacetuicursesmenusforms