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Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by strongly-typed on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:58PM (#49158411)
A framing from that podcast that helped me better understand the role of Bonsai is that it's really a framework for building incremental distributed state machines.
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Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by frutiger on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:24PM (#49158808)
This framing is also in the post. From the readme:

> Bonsai itself -- this library -- is actually more generic than the above makes it sound. It allows you to build general-purpose incremental, composable state machines. Bonsai_web builds on top of that core library, specializing it for interactive browser-based UIs, but we also have Bonsai_term for building interactive terminal-based UIs.

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Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by dtornabene on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:15PM (#49159480)
The docs are a bit sparing but if you read the source its pretty cool to see how they did this.
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Re:Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library by HolyLampshade on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:37PM (#49163110)
The entirety of modern financial markets is simply incremental distributed state machines.
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