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NeoPets Sparked A Career In Web And Compilers
- Ty's first web projects were NeoPets pet pages, which sparked a lifelong hobby in programming.
- He later worked on compilers at Microsoft before joining Jane Street to blend PL work with web development.
Reduce Composition Boilerplate To Encourage Reuse
- Avoid heavyweight boilerplate when composing components; excessive recomposition cost discourages modularization.
- Ty rewrote composition from 50–70 lines for a simple combinator to compact Bonsai combinators to encourage reuse.
Components As General Incremental Computations
- Bonsai treats components as general incremental computations, not just view producers, letting many components output non-UI values used elsewhere.
- This lets you compose state machines and values in a directed acyclic graph instead of forcing tree-structured UI tied to the DOM.