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Building a UI Framework with Ty Overby

Ty Overby is a programmer in Jane Street’s web platform group where he works on Bonsai, our OCaml library for building interactive browser-based UI. In this episode, Ty and Ron consider the functional approach to building user interfaces. They also discuss Ty’s programming roots in Neopets, what development features they crave on the web, the unfairly maligned CSS, and why Excel is “arguably the greatest programming language ever developed.” Some links to topics that came up in the discussion: Jane Street’s Bonsai library: https://opensource.janestreet.com/bonsai/ The 3D design system OpenSCAD: https://openscad.org/ Matt Keeter’s libfive design tools: https://libfive.com/ Try .NET in-browser repl: https://try.dot.net/ Jane Street’s Incr_dom library: https://opensource.janestreet.com/incr_dom/ The Elm Architecture “pattern for architecting interactive programs”: https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/ React JavaScript library: https://reactjs.org/ The Houdini proposal: https://houdini.glitch.me/ Svelte UI toolkit: https://svelte.dev/ You can find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at signalsandthreads.com.

06 Oct 2021

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The New Replaying Benchmark in Irmin

As mentioned in our Tezos Storage / Irmin Summer 2021 Update on the Tezos Agora forum, the Irmin team's goal has been to improve Irmin's…

04 Oct 2021

Tarides

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Presenting Core

Presenting Core, by Yaron Minsky Core is Jane Street's alternative to the OCaml standard library. The need for an alternative to the standard library is clear: OCaml's standard library is well implemented, but it's narrow in scope, and somewh...

03 Oct 2021

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Towards an OCaml Platform

Towards an OCaml Platform, by Yaron Minsky

03 Oct 2021

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The State of OCaml

The State of OCaml, Xavier Leroy

03 Oct 2021

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OCaml Companion Tools

OCaml Companion Tools, by Xavier Clerc. The objective of this talk is to present several tools that aim to ease the development of software written with the OCaml language. These tools are particularly suited to help the developer during the de...

03 Oct 2021

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DragonKit - an extensible language oriented compiler

DragonKit - an extensible language oriented compiler, by Wojciech Meyer

03 Oct 2021

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OPAM - an OCaml Package Manager

OPAM - an OCaml Package Manager, by Thomas Gazagnaire.

03 Oct 2021

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Experiments in Generic Programming

Experiments in generic programming: runtime type representation and implicit values, by Pierre Chambart & Grégoire Henry

03 Oct 2021

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