Tangentially-related: check out Vermont Views [1], a complete TUI development solution. I wish they open sourced it before they exited the market, or re-entered the market for IOT/embedded developers. I've never found a comparable open source effort, though here's to hoping the Blessed project for node.js takes inspiration from Vermont Views for future directions.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20091011010412/http://www.vtsoft....