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There's a lack of financial incentive to build TUI apps. It's a niche. It's awesome for power users: no lag, all keyboard driven, raw structured data. But businesses buy slack / trello / salesforce for swathes of people. That sort of thing doesn't happen if the following is simply limited to programmers / power users (and a cross section of those at that)

I haven't seen any C++11+ wrappers for ncurses... until, recently: https://github.com/clangen/cursespp, https://github.com/Praetonus/Ncursescpp strange license.

There are people who are on the forefront of terminal tech, examples are stuff by https://github.com/saitoha, https://github.com/mitotic/graphterm

There is hyper: https://hyper.is/ It works on windows. But by then, you potentially have the lag time most terminal users want to bypass.

For windows, maybe https://github.com/microsoft/terminal will encourage more terminal innovation by bsd/linux -> windows crossovers.

On Linux, try this: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

I wrote a book on tmux that briefly touches terminal stuff. I still get confused when terminals are miscolored and emit junk characters. There's a lot more going on behind a terminal than meets the eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_terminal_interface#Gener...