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  • The docs directory happen to be missing, therefore the links to the quick guide and to "thinking in bonsai" pages from the readme are broken.

    Also, I'm wondering how does bonsai-web update the DOM, is it via direct modification of the changed elements, or via some DOM differ? I'd say from direct update from a quick look at the source, but I'm unsure.

    by rixed
  • Oh it needs a userland trampoline!

    > JSOO does not have tail call optimization

    by hahahaa
  • This is great. It focuses on utility and information density over design. It looks like someone took a terminal UI and transplanted it to the web, Bloomberg terminal style.

    I'm pretty sure you can build tools with this that are fast and pleasant to use.

    by MrBuddyCasino
  • What does JaneStreet do besides sponsoring nerdy Youtube channels and writing UI libraries?
    by cachius
  • Curious how this compares to Melange which is used by Ocaml shops as well to double up on Ocaml for both front and backend (ahrefs being the major user and sponsor). Does this mean giving up a lot of the JS ecosystem (React, graphql, etc)?
    by chrischen
  • I am sure it's very performant, but to me it's extremely ugly; Surely someone can fix margins and still have it be performant.
    by rw2
  • > And because Bonsai is written in OCaml, it becomes possible to use the same language and types on both the backend and frontend.

    Finally! I was waiting for this to become possible!

    by flufluflufluffy
  • There's a great Signals and Threads (Jane Street's Podcast) episode about this work: https://signalsandthreads.com/building-a-ui-framework/
    by bsmith89

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