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

(github.com)

71 points by azhenley72 days ago

8 comments

Smaug12372 days 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]: <a href="https://github.com/janestreet/incremental/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/janestreet/incremental/</a>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Incremental/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Incremental/</a>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies</a>[3]: <a href="https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies/blob/15bf1875ed651877a08b53122a5865d4815af036/WoofWare.Zoomies.Test/TestRender.fs#L33-L74" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies/blob/15bf1875ed...</a>
sroerick72 days 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
malux8572 days ago
GUI library with no screenshots, classic
- FailMore72 days ago
  I was looking for the same thing too
jauntywundrkind72 days ago
Nearby, ghostty-web has a wasm build. Probably not inconceivable to spin a more general wasm build too. <a href="https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web</a> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060087">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060087</a>
ranger_danger72 days ago
An OCaml library*
- loeg72 days ago
  Seems redundant; the title already includes "Jane Street."
  - forgotpwd1671 days ago
    Quite amusing how they've become known as that-firm-using-OCaml.
some_guy_nobel72 days ago
README could use more work. Zero images, demos, etc. - why put all the effort into a tool just to market it so poorly...
- thaumasiotes72 days ago
  Probably because they wrote the tool for internal use and don't care whether you start using it.
koterpillar72 days ago
No screenshots or videos?