gyscos/cursive

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4841 stars · 268 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Cursive is a Text User Interface (TUI) library for Rust focused on ease-of-use, letting developers build rich interactive terminal applications with views like dialogs, menus, and lists. It defaults to the crossterm backend but supports alternative backends such as ncurses.

Use cases

• build a terminal UI app in Rust
• create interactive dialogs and menus in the terminal
• write a TUI dashboard or text-based tool
• add a text user interface to a CLI program
• build terminal forms with input fields and buttons

When to choose

• you want an easy-to-use, safe Rust TUI library with batteries-included views
• you need cross-platform terminal UIs without manual ncurses handling
• you prefer a view-based, event-loop-driven architecture for terminal apps

When to avoid

• you need pixel-level or graphical (GUI) interfaces rather than text-based ones
• you want a minimal immediate-mode TUI approach rather than a widget/view framework
• you are not working in Rust

Facets

library · maturity stable

ui-components terminal-ui developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform windows rust cross-platform cli tui ncurses crossterm terminal-ui rust-library event-loop command-line linux macos

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