alt Hacker News> And because Bonsai is written in OCaml, it becomes possible to use the same language and types on both the backend and frontend.
Finally! I was waiting for this to become possible!
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There's also Fable for F# but I believe this commenter is being sarcastic. Javascript is a common backend language.
A really great place to reach for this is Elixir/Phoenix now that the set theoretic type system is in place with LiveView. I have been doing some pretty large/complex codebases gradually working towards fully integrating working this way for the past 5 years and it has been great.
Similar attempts include Scalajs.
The general challenge becomes integrating the fractional front-end code written in your backend-language that compiles to JS with the rest of the JS ecosystem.
JaneStreet have a love of writing their own stuff from scratch so it doesn't apply to them but it might to you.
Hence most people end up with frontend-as-backend rather than backend-as-frontend.
> Finally! I was waiting for this to become possible!
Sarcasm?
Do you want to have a talk as to why JaneStreet wasn't built on JavaScript?
Why wait? It’s been possible since forever. I wrote UI in OCaml eight years ago. https://github.com/kccqzy/drawing-guessing/blob/master/clien...