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It might be a very performant UI framework in OCaml, but all the UI elements look extremely unpolished to me, like what a really smart high-school kid would build the GUI for his side project on Windows in 90s.

Thanks, I can use JS as a functional programming language.

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Windows and especially Macintosh UIs from the late 90s/early 00s were by far the most functional UIs we've ever had since the dawn of the desktop era - user research was a serious discipline, accessibility was baked in to the frameworks, and the HID guidelines that devs adhered to gave us uniform conventions that we users could rely on.

If the biggest criticism of Bonsai is "it ain't pretty but it works", then long life to Bonsai - give me more, please!

I agree, we have lost the beauty of early user interfaces. You summarised it well, thank you.

Did you maybe confuse bonsai with a CSS library? How to build web UI != How to style HTML. Bonsai solves a different problem.

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