ncurses
| ncurses | |
|---|---|
 ncurses-based menuconfig | |
| Developers | Thomas E. Dickey, Juergen Pfeifer, Eric S. Raymond, Alexander V Lukyanov, Philippe Blain, Sven Verdoolaege, Nicolas Boulenguez et al. |
| Release | 1993 |
| Stable release | 6.6 
/ 31 December 2025 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | POSIX |
| Type | Widget toolkit |
| License | X11 |
| Website | invisible-island |
| Repository | |
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals. It is written in a way that attempts to optimize the commands that are sent to the terminal, to reduce the latency experienced when updating the displayed content.
ncurses is a free and open-source software emulation of curses from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4).
There are bindings for ncurses in a variety of programming languages, including Ada, Common Lisp, Python, Gambas, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Object REXX (ooRexx) and Rust.