Command-line tools written in C or C++ — close to the metal, favored for speed-critical utilities and long-lived Unix classics.
# 23 tools written in C / C++
Command-line JSON processor
a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++
Linux port of FAR v2
Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems.
A fuse filesystem for mounting archives in formats supported by libarchive.
A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers
mawww's experiment for a better code editor
tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen.
A monitor of resources
htop - an interactive process viewer