tcell for Golang Terminal UI ApplicationsLooks like tcell is still far and away the best pure Go terminal
library. The main reason is its full support for terminfo and “all POSIX
systems”.
Tcell includes a full parser and expander for terminfo capability strings, so that it can avoid hard coding escape strings for formatting. It also favors portability, and includes support for all POSIX systems.
The database is also flexible & extensible, and can modified by either running a program to build the entire database, or an entry for just a single terminal.
The termbox that I originally learned and used in several
projects is fine for most things, but tcell has first-class support
for pretty much anything anyone has done in a terminal in the last 30
years. It is very stable, still maintained (from what I can tell) and
continue to be the basis for cview, which I consider the best terminal
widgets library in Go, period (even though I have problems with where it
is hosted).
Looks like I’ll be learning tview for now and tcell eventually.
Games in tcell would be a really fun project since you have direct
access to all the cells as if they were pixels in a graphic UI.