@xianc78 @icedquinn As Xianc said, SDL is the way to go as far as having nice things goes.
Like how GTK 2.0 for desktop GUI, ncurses for terminal TUI, and languages like C, PHP, Go, and Lua without a framework.
Even PHP frameworks like Laravel feel more and more corpo-ish as it's getting more popular, all while real PHP will remain free (as in freedom) forever.