Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With?

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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Something you might look into

[iPaul]

Ruby has hooks for curses (Ruby is a fairly simple language). It also has a database API and an object relational layer ActiveRecord (part of Rails but doesn't require rails). You might take a look at that. You can extend Ruby using C if you need or you can write the C/C++ programs as callable from inside of the ruby script.

This is NOT something I've done before (except for using Ruby and Rails and the database api). But it might be something to take a peek at.