Curses has been around for a long time, i think, decades. And we previously, when people wanted to creat aps like this one, it was very difficult. The other one kind of gives you much higher level building blocks to accomplish the same thing. So ataxts more abstract, and you don't have to plo individual characters. You just see, i put tax box this part of the screen and a button in this parts of the screen, and o textuall handles the rest.