pancurses
A cross-platform Rust curses library that provides a Rustic interface for terminal UI development on Unix and Windows.
What is pancurses?
pancurses is a curses library for Rust that enables terminal-based user interface development across both Unix-like systems and Windows. It abstracts away platform-specific backend details, offering developers a consistent API for building text-mode applications. The library provides a more idiomatic Rust wrapper over traditional C curses functions, balancing ease of use with familiarity for porting existing code.
Rust developers building cross-platform terminal applications, especially those porting existing curses-based code from C or other languages to Rust. It is also suitable for developers creating new text-mode interfaces that need to run consistently on both Linux and Windows.
Developers choose pancurses for its seamless cross-platform support with a unified API, eliminating the need to handle backend differences between ncurses on Unix and PDCurses on Windows. Its Rustic interface offers idiomatic patterns like input handling with match statements, while staying close enough to traditional curses to simplify porting.
Overview
A Rust curses library, supports Unix platforms and Windows
Use Cases
Best For
- Building cross-platform terminal applications in Rust that must run on both Linux and Windows without code changes.
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