Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday January 4, 2007 @02:42PM from the ain't-nothin'-wrong-wit-curses dept.

JHWH asks: "I've been asked to design and implement a management software system with text based user interface as the replacement of an older one running on AS/400. Despite my attempts towards a web UI, the customer is actually willing to have a text based UI. The main reasons are the need for a very low bandwidth and the ability to run on serial terminals. All this in the 21st century! Host systems will be Linux, the language will be C or C++. I already thought about the use of text based browsers like lynx or links. So now I have to wipe the dust away from my ncurses manual, or can Slashdot suggest something more effective?"

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Python and ncurses would make a good combination by caseih · 2007-01-04 15:11 · Score: 3, Informative

Seems like the bulk of the UI logic would be easier to develop and more error-free if done in python. python could then tie into the C/C++ backend code where necessary. From my casual search of google, python and (n)curses work very well together.