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wide-energy-11069

10/16/2018, 6:54 PM
English question, what does the
curses
mean in
Curses UX
?
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aloof-angle-91616

10/18/2018, 5:39 PM
curses was the original unixy lib, ncurses is the popular linux version of that library. curses libraries (by virtue of being C libraries for UI) are renowned to be complex to use (i think ncurses has some crazy preprocessor macros? i don't remember) but i don't think that's intrinsic
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and @witty-crayon-22786 "curses" is indeed an allowable catch-all term for this type of UI