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by throw10920 1642 days ago
Yes! Please! Every one of these problems are interesting ones that have been solved before...but the solutions are packaged up into massive systems (good luck finding the code for actually executing element layout in Chromium) and then it seems like are never discussed again on places like Reddit, HN, Stack Exchange, or even among other programmers I know IRL.

In particular, I'm incredibly interested in layout algorithms - I'm working on building a GUI toolkit, for which I need layout algorithms to lay out widgets, but can't find anything other than descriptions of how to use existing systems...

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Agreed, maybe something expressed in human learnable non-code procedural notation.