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Fair point I guess JS doesn't have to care about this at all because they're not selling their UI to others, just making it in house for in house use
JavaScript?
Think node, except the other direction. They write their backend in OCaml, and then they also write their web ui in OCaml with a translation layer
Or think of gwt (java) awhile back
Curious how this compares to Melange which is used by Ocaml shops as well to double up on Ocaml for both front and backend (ahrefs being the major user and sponsor). Does this mean giving up a lot of the JS ecosystem (React, graphql, etc)?
A good GraphQL server and client should be relatively straightforward to make in OCaml. Especially if you start from the premise that fragment spreads compose, rather than inherit. Relay’s (second) compiler was prototyped in OCaml, but we ended up switching to Rust for the main rewrite in the belief that we’d be able to use the same runtime code across iOS, Android and JS environments. Please somebody make a good OCa…
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FWIW if you listen to Signals and Threads (the Jane Street podcast) they talk about this. They have dedicated UX designers who do relatively little code but focus entirely on making the UX as optimal for the traders as possible and one of them was on an episode. They talked about how most of the normal UX rules for SW go out the window because quants and traders have such different needs than "normal software".
Is there any professional software that wouldn't benefit from high information density? Most software design is optimized for the non-users who have to approve it.
Higher information density is ideal but when people are working in less than ideal conditions (stress, lack of sleep, alarms going off, etc) you need to prioritise information clarity and clarity of actions over raw density.
It looks like a nice little library; but oh boy must this be so limiting for the product teams that are forced to use. Everything looks like it's straight out of the 1990s.