This library is somewhat not maintained anymore. But I'm glad that it did what I wanted the most. It moved people away from "ncurses" mindset and these days we see both re-implementations of termbox API in various languages and even possibly better libs with similar API design. If you're looking for a Go lib that provides terminal-based user interface facilities, I've heard that https://github.com/gdamore/tcell is good (never used it myself). Also for more complicated interfaces and/or computer games I recommend you to consider using HTML-based UI. Having said that, termbox still somewhat works. In fact I'm writing this line of text right now in godit (which is a text editor written using termbox-go). So, be aware. Good luck and have a nice day.
Termbox is a library that provides a minimalistic API which allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces. The library is crossplatform and has both terminal-based implementations on *nix operating systems and a winapi console based implementation for windows operating systems. The basic idea is an abstraction of the greatest common subset of features available on all major terminals and other terminal-like APIs in a minimalistic fashion. Small API means it is easy to implement, test, maintain and learn it, that's what makes the termbox a distinct library in its area.
### Installation
Install and update this go package with `go get -u github.com/nsf/termbox-go`
### Examples
For examples of what can be done take a look at demos in the _demos directory. You can try them with go run: `go run _demos/keyboard.go`
There are also some interesting projects using termbox-go:
- [godit](https://github.com/nsf/godit) is an emacsish lightweight text editor written using termbox.
- [gotetris](https://github.com/jjinux/gotetris) is an implementation of Tetris.
- [sokoban-go](https://github.com/rn2dy/sokoban-go) is an implementation of sokoban game.
- [hecate](https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate) is a hex editor designed by Satan.
- [httopd](https://github.com/verdverm/httopd) is top for httpd logs.