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

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• 8 months 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...

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

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