Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai> And because Bonsai is written in OCaml, it becomes possible to use the same language and types on both the backend and frontend.
Finally! I was waiting for this to become possible!
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There's also Fable for F# but I believe this commenter is being sarcastic. Javascript is a common backend language.
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Looks like it's Web-only, no mention of the native UI support (terminal UI excluded).
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Oh it needs a userland trampoline!
> JSOO does not have tail call optimization
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I wish there were more OCaml shops out there
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This would of been cool back in 2014.
The "Why Bonsai?" I found really funny.
Let me re-write that section for you:
Why Bonsai?
At Jane Street we're super excited by Functional programming and by CAML in particular, so when we need low latency software, we use OCAML, when we need hardware, we write out own langauge - HardCAML, and when we need a Web UI, we build a Web UI framework in CAML. Because we fucking love CAML.
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Agreed, looks like it's reinventing the wheels. Frameworks does not really matter today, AI agents write the code anyway.
But AI do benefit a lot from a strict compiler, and having a simple language improve a lot on type-safety, so I don't think it is to throw, even today.
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