notcurses
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 6, 2025first mention
May 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“notcurses is probably the best option for getting the best you can out of a random terminal”
“Did you try notcurses ?”
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Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“my TUI library had a flickering problem because it was doing more than 10k FPS”
Threads where it came up
- Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century 2 mentions
- Ratatui – App Showcase 2 mentions
- Formal Methods and the Future of Programming 1 mention
- I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video] 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026) 1 mention
- Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby 1 mention
Also written as Notcurses. Data: notcurses.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“supports everything in `notcurses`”
“I currently have TUI w/ notcurses and Adwaita/GTK working”
“I just spent the weekend AI slopping an FFI wrapper around notcurses because I couldn't find anything else.”
“notcurses is probably the best option for getting the best you can out of a random terminal”
“Did you try notcurses ?”
“https://notcurses.com/”
“We got graphics and everything now[0]”