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Bonsai_term: A library for building dynamic terminal apps by Jane Street

71 points by azhenley 11mo ago

ranger_danger 11mo ago
An OCaml library*
- loeg 11mo ago
  Seems redundant; the title already includes "Jane Street."
  - forgotpwd16 11mo ago
    Quite amusing how they've become known as that-firm-using-OCaml.
jauntywundrkind 11mo ago
Nearby, ghostty-web has a wasm build. Probably not inconceivable to spin a more general wasm build too. https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060087
koterpillar 11mo ago
No screenshots or videos?
malux85 11mo ago
GUI library with no screenshots, classic
- FailMore 11mo ago
  I was looking for the same thing too
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some_guy_nobel 11mo ago
README could use more work. Zero images, demos, etc. - why put all the effort into a tool just to market it so poorly...
- thaumasiotes 11mo ago
  Probably because they wrote the tool for internal use and don't care whether you start using it.
sroerick 11mo ago
I too, would like tosee screenshots. I have not heard of bonsai_web before. Could you feasibly use this to build both web apps and TUI apps simultaneously? If this is the case, I find this extremely interesting. The examples look well fleshed out and interesting. OCAML seems like a perfect language to accomplish this. Ocsigen is pretty complex, but also seems wildly ahead of its time. PPX is a wonderful metaprogramming paradigm and I would love to know how this is being used in production
Smaug123 11mo ago
Hey, I've been on an odyssey to port this (for a very liberal definition of "port") to .NET for many months! The underlying library [Incremental][0] [is ported][1] though currently unused; the "ported" framework itself doesn't yet include any Bonsai magic, but the terminal-side stuff is [Zoomies][2], in which [this is broadly what it looks like][3] to write a VDOM (scroll down to line 100 to see how to process user interaction, and line 150 to see how that VDOM renders). All very incomplete and with a big long list of features to add, and the current design is not flexible enough yet to accommodate the "table" primitive, but we're slowly getting there. [0]: https://github.com/janestreet/incremental/ https://github.com/janestreet/incremental/ [1]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Incremental/ https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Incremental/ [2]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies [3]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies/blob/15bf1875ed651877a08b53122a5865d4815af036/WoofWare.Zoomies.Test/TestRender.fs#L33-L74 https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies/blob/15bf1875ed...

71 points by azhenley 11mo ago

ranger_danger 11mo ago

An OCaml library*

loeg 11mo ago
Seems redundant; the title already includes "Jane Street."
- forgotpwd16 11mo ago
  Quite amusing how they've become known as that-firm-using-OCaml.

jauntywundrkind 11mo ago

Nearby, ghostty-web has a wasm build. Probably not inconceivable to spin a more general wasm build too. https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060087

koterpillar 11mo ago

No screenshots or videos?

malux85 11mo ago

GUI library with no screenshots, classic

FailMore 11mo ago
I was looking for the same thing too

deleted 11mo ago

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some_guy_nobel 11mo ago

README could use more work. Zero images, demos, etc. - why put all the effort into a tool just to market it so poorly...

thaumasiotes 11mo ago
Probably because they wrote the tool for internal use and don't care whether you start using it.

sroerick 11mo ago

I too, would like tosee screenshots. I have not heard of bonsai_web before. Could you feasibly use this to build both web apps and TUI apps simultaneously? If this is the case, I find this extremely interesting. The examples look well fleshed out and interesting. OCAML seems like a perfect language to accomplish this. Ocsigen is pretty complex, but also seems wildly ahead of its time. PPX is a wonderful metaprogramming paradigm and I would love to know how this is being used in production

Smaug123 11mo ago

Hey, I've been on an odyssey to port this (for a very liberal definition of "port") to .NET for many months! The underlying library [Incremental][0] [is ported][1] though currently unused; the "ported" framework itself doesn't yet include any Bonsai magic, but the terminal-side stuff is [Zoomies][2], in which [this is broadly what it looks like][3] to write a VDOM (scroll down to line 100 to see how to process user interaction, and line 150 to see how that VDOM renders). All very incomplete and with a big long list of features to add, and the current design is not flexible enough yet to accommodate the "table" primitive, but we're slowly getting there. [0]: https://github.com/janestreet/incremental/ https://github.com/janestreet/incremental/ [1]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Incremental/ https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Incremental/ [2]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies [3]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies/blob/15bf1875ed651877a08b53122a5865d4815af036/WoofWare.Zoomies.Test/TestRender.fs#L33-L74 https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies/blob/15bf1875ed...