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

• strongly-typed 2mo ago
  A framing from that podcast that helped me better understand the role of Bonsai is that it's really a framework for building incremental distributed state machines.
  • frutiger 2mo ago
    This framing is also in the post. From the readme: > Bonsai itself -- this library -- is actually more generic than the above makes it sound. It allows you to build general-purpose incremental, composable state machines. Bonsai_web builds on top of that core library, specializing it for interactive browser-based UIs, but we also have Bonsai_term for building interactive terminal-based UIs.
  • dtornabene 2mo ago
    The docs are a bit sparing but if you read the source its pretty cool to see how they did this.
  • HolyLampshade 2mo ago
    The entirety of modern financial markets is simply incremental distributed state machines.
• lenkite 2mo ago
  The value proposition about this web framework over things like React, Phoenix, etc is that it uses incremental computing right ? Using Jane Street's incremental computing library. I see it being used at https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/blob/f31661450eb133fe89564219d97669c2735c6622/bonsai.opam#L21 https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/blob/f31661450eb133fe89...
  • boywitharupee 2mo ago
    is it this? https://github.com/janestreet/incremental https://github.com/janestreet/incremental