No, terminal emulators differ all over the place, especially for new features. Do you want to lock yourself in and only use the ancient ANSI codes? In, like you say, “THE TWENTY FIRST FUCKING CENTURY”? Great, you do that.
What’s that you say? You want to use modern features on terminals which support it? Do you then write “if getenv("TERM") == "spiffy-terminal"”? Congratulations, you’ve just begun implementing your very own ad hoc, informally-specified and bug-ridden terminal UI library.
> my hope is that this tutorial will curtail some of the more egregiously trivial uses of ncurses and provide others with the knowledge needed to implement a 21st-century terminal UI library
If you don’t like curses specifically, then don’t use it, but there are now myriads of alternatives.
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