# gyscos/cursive

A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language

Repository: https://github.com/gyscos/cursive
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cursive
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ncurses, rust, tui, terminal
Last push: 2026-08-01T10:46:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 20, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4134, "days_push": 32, "days_rel": 323, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4841, forks 268 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:01.256401+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, terminal-ui, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, rust, cross-platform, cli
- tags: tui, ncurses, crossterm, terminal-ui, rust-library, event-loop, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- gyscos/cursive (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.256401+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:18:27.955815+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gyscos/cursive (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:01.256401+00:00, sha 89b3c71e0dd4)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/cursive (fetched 2026-08-29T09:01:07.900827+00:00, sha 9821ecebd40c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.