Crate rustui

rustui

The simplest terminal UI library designed for Rust. Developed with Rust’s ownership model and safety guarantees in mind.

Features

• Cross-platform: Works on Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc.)
• Double Buffering: Efficient rendering with differential updates
• Rich Text Styling: Support for colors, attributes (bold, italic, underline, etc.)
• Non-blocking Input: Asynchronous keyboard input handling
• Thread-safe: Multi-threaded rendering and input processing

Architecture

The library is organized into several core modules:

• framebuffer - Character grid for efficient rendering
• window - High-level windowing abstraction with thread management
• input - Non-blocking keyboard and mouse input handling
• term - Terminal colors, attributes, and ANSI escape sequences
• render - Rendering utilities and drawing primitives

Performance

rustui is optimized for performance with:

• Differential updates (only changed cells are redrawn)
• Efficient ANSI sequence generation

Re-exports

pub use framebuffer::*;

pub use input::*;

pub use render::*;

pub use term::*;

pub use window::*;

Modules

framebuffer

A module for handling the framebuffer.

input

A module for handling user input.

render

A module for a rendering context.

term

A module for handling terminal colors and attributes.

window

A module for handling windowing.

Macros

csi

Create a CSI (Control Sequence Introducer) escape sequence