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

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai_term

71•azhenley•2mo ago

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ranger_danger•2mo ago

An OCaml library*

loeg•2mo ago

Seems redundant; the title already includes "Jane Street."

forgotpwd16•2mo ago

Quite amusing how they've become known as that-firm-using-OCaml.

jauntywundrkind•2mo 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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060087

koterpillar•2mo ago

No screenshots or videos?

malux85•2mo ago

GUI library with no screenshots, classic

FailMore•2mo ago

I was looking for the same thing too

some_guy_nobel•2mo 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•2mo ago

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

sroerick•2mo 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•2mo 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/

[1]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Incremental/

[2]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies

[3]: https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Zoomies/blob/15bf1875ed...

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