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curses and ncurses are specific libraries used while TUI is a more universal term.

But what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface? I'm not complaining or saying it shouldn't be used, I'd just never seen it before and my initial searches for TUI were all overloaded with other things.

> But what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface

The Wikipedia page is from 2004, so it's been around a while.

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