Ncurses-rs has been archived

by zdw • 2 years ago

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__s• 2 years ago

ncurses-rs has been archived and will not be further developed. Release 6.0.1 is the last release.
Overall, the thinness of this wrapper puts it into an uncomfortable middle ground between C and Rust which is still unsafe and not very Rustic. It'd be better to use either C interop directly or something altogether safer. I made ncurses-rs in 2015, when the Rust landscape was very different.
If you'd like to make a TUI in safe Rust, consider ratatui, cursive, or similar.

Seems reasonable. Author is saying that if they made a TUI today in Rust they wouldn't use ncurses-rs. No point maintaining a library when it stops scratching your own itch

duskwuff• 2 years ago

TBH, I'm not sure I'd even use ncurses for a TUI project in C today. ncurses was made to solve a specific set of problems at a specific point in time; better solutions for many of those problems have since emerged.

bolobo• 2 years ago

What would you use then? I am interested!

Ncurses-rs has been archived

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