This is NOT "literally a port of an older curses lib to the latest .net". It is a complete API for building terminal UI applications using .NET that leverages curses under the covers when running in a non-Windows environment (on Windows it uses the native Windows console APIs).

For completeness, Terminal.Gui is built on top of a "Console Abstraction Layer" (CAL; I just invented that term), via the "ConsoleDriver" base class. There are four subclasses provided:

- CursesDriver: Uses curses and is the default on Linux/Mac.

- WindowsDriver: Uses the Windows console API and is the default on Windows (only works on Windows)

- NetDriver: Uses the .NET console API and works on all platforms

- FakeDriver: Used for unit testing.

NetDriver is the slowest. WindowsDriver is the fastest. CursesDriver is the biggest bugfarm ;-).