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I'm trying to make a c++ snake game in linux using ansi escape codes but i can't figure out a way to get async keyboard input. Im a beginner and i'm currently reading a c++ book, so i didn't cover multithreading yet. Is there any chance to achieve this result in a "simple" way.(and standard if it's possible, i saw the kbhit solution) How to use kbhit and getch (C programming) . Can i solve the problem reading from the /dev/input event files?

Thank you guys.

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    There's no standard way. /dev/input is linux-specific, so it's not even remotely standard. Commented Jun 26, 2020 at 14:33
  • Are you asking about asynchronous keyboard input or per-key-stroke keyboard input? You can perform asynchronous keyboard input via std::async or std::thread but that doesn't look it's what you're actually asking. Commented Jun 26, 2020 at 14:58

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C++ does not offer a standard way to asynchronously read the keyboard status.

boost asio, as in read from keyboard using boost async_read and posix::stream_descriptor is one way. Some people consider boost like a "standard" or "normal" C++ extension.

Another way is to use a game library like SDL or SFML. You include their headers and you link with their libs.

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