Bonsai_term: An OCaml Library for Building Dynamic Terminal User Interfaces
By
azhenley
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
Bonsai_term is an OCaml library for building dynamic terminal user interfaces (TUIs) that follows the same programming model as the bonsai_web library. The article provides an introduction to the library, installation instructions using opam (OCaml's package manager), and mentions available demos with source code in an examples repository. It's a technical documentation piece aimed at developers interested in terminal application development with OCaml.
Key quotes
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It uses the same programming model as the bonsai_web library
If you are new to OCaml - or if you haven't already - install opam. It is OCaml's package manager and we'll be using it to install bonsai_term and its dependencies
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