cl-charms
A Common Lisp interface to libcurses providing both low-level CFFI bindings and a higher-level Lisp-friendly API.
What is cl-charms?
cl-charms is a Common Lisp library that provides foreign function bindings to libcurses (ncurses), enabling developers to create terminal-based user interfaces (TUIs) in Lisp. It solves the problem of accessing low-level curses functionality from Common Lisp by offering both raw CFFI bindings and a higher-level, more idiomatic Lisp API.
Common Lisp developers who need to build terminal applications, interactive command-line tools, or text-based games that require advanced terminal control like cursor movement, window management, and input handling.
Developers choose cl-charms because it's a modern, maintained successor to cl-ncurses with better portability via CFFI, dual-level API flexibility, and compatibility across multiple Lisp implementations and operating systems—including Windows through PDCurses.
Overview
More up-to-date version of cl-charms. Forked it because it was, apparently, abandoned by author and I couldn't contact him.
Use Cases
Best For
- Building terminal-based applications in Common Lisp
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