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.” You can find the transcript for this episode on our website . Some links to topics that came up in the discussion: Jane Street’s Bonsai library The 3D design system OpenSCAD Matt Keeter’s libfive design tools Try .NET in-browser repl Jane Street’s Incr_dom library The Elm Architecture “pattern for architecting interactive programs” React JavaScript library The Houdini proposal Svelte UI toolkit

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Building a UI Framework with Ty Overby is an episode from Signals and Threads by Jane Street.

This episode is 01:00:04 long.

This episode was published on Oct 6, 2021.

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