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Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by bofeiw on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:57AM (#49153558)
Agreed, looks like it's reinventing the wheels. Frameworks does not really matter today, AI agents write the code anyway.
Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by shAIster on Monday August 03, 2026 @07:13AM (#49154208)
AI certainly writes Internet comments so that the flock does not have a single minute to get independent thoughts.
Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by KolmogorovComp on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:59AM (#49153580)
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.
Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by rmzs0711 on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:10AM (#49153668)
But what about compilation speed? Hot reload? Maintainability? What is the bus factor for these kind of technologies?

Yea, its cool to have strict type safety, but what's the point of it doesn't have all the benefits from other Frameworks that took years to polish

Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by OtherShrezzing on Monday August 03, 2026 @07:03AM (#49154098)
JaneStreet has enough free cash to not worry about those issues. If one of their key persons dies in service, they can go out and contract the worlds leading expert in that domain, and their annualised rate isn’t even a rounding error on their bottom line.
Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by zem on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:00PM (#49158446)
ocaml has excellent compilation speed, and in my experience the code is very maintainable due to the module and type systems.
Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by ForHackernews on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:59AM (#49153579)
Better frameworks will still help AIs avoid silly mistakes. A smarter framework means you can be productive with a dumber/cheaper AI.