SwiftCurses

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Make terminal applications quickly with ncurses + Swift

curses ncurses ncurses-library swift terminal ui

This version requires new macOS version: 10.15

Interrupt handling: ncurses will now be properly cleaned up on an interrupt

Full Changelog: 1.0.3...1.1.0

❰ examples | documentation ❱

SwiftCurses is a Swifty wrapper for ncurses.

ncurses - CRT screen handling and optimization package

Hello World

import SwiftCurses

try initScreen() { scr in
    try scr.print("Hello world !!!")
    scr.refresh()
    try scr.getChar()
}

ncurses must be installed on the system.

In your swift package:

dependencies: [
  .package(url: "https://github.com/jomy10/SwiftCurses.git", branch: "master")
]

In a swift target:

.target(
  name: "MyTarget",
  dependencies: ["SwiftCurses"]
)

There is a great ncurses tutorial you can find here, the examples in this repository show the examples seen in the tutorial.

NCurses documentation can be found here, though keep in mind some functions may be missing/have a different name.

swift run Examples [name of the example (see main.swift)]

Feel free to ask any questions.

Always looking at improving this library, feel free to leave suggestions/pull requests.

macOS version	library version
< 10.15	<= 1.0.3
>= 10.15	latest

Since the original is licensed under the MIT license, this library is also licensed under the MIT license.

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Last updated: Thu May 15 2025 08:58:39 GMT-0900 (Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time)