rustio rustio.net
58

cursive

v0.21.1 Growing

A TUI (Text User Interface) library focused on ease-of-use.

MIT Edition 2021
Command-line interfaceGUI #ui#ncurses#tui

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.4K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

Checking security advisories...
Downloads
1.2M
Dependents
1.4K
Releases
65
Size
43KB

Deep Insights

๐Ÿ“Š
Steady growth

55.7K downloads in the last 30 days (1.9K/day), up 20% from the previous period.

๐Ÿ”—
Widely adopted

1.4K crates depend on cursive. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

โš ๏ธ
Single maintainer risk

cursive has only 1 owner despite 1.4K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

๐Ÿ”ฌ
Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 9+ years old, cursive hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

๐Ÿ“
Compact crate

At 42KB, cursive is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

๐ŸŒŸ
Used by top crates

Notable dependents include below-common, cursive_table_view, ncspot, cursive-tabs, cursive-multiplex. When high-quality crates choose cursive, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 7/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
1K/day avg+56%
01K2K3K12/301/172/42/223/123/29

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.20.0
48%
v0.16.3
19%
v0.21.1
18%
v0.15.0
8%
v0.9.2
6%

Release Timeline

65 releasessince 2016
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
2016
19
2017
17
2018
7
2019
5
2020
3
2021
8
2022
4
2023
2024
2
2025
2026
Less
More

Feature Flags

default =["crossterm-backend"]

ansitomlbuilderdoc-cfgmarkdownblt-backendncurses-backendtermion-backendcrossterm-backend*pancurses-backend

README

Loading README...

Maintainers

Dependencies
20
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.4K
crates depend on cursive

Similar Crates