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peterkos | 1 year ago

> It may not sound like much, but this was a lot of work. I spent days just thinking about this problem, trying to understand what is happening now and how to improve it.

I find these kinds of problems the most fun and the most educational! I tried building a grid layout system from scratch in SwiftUI, and it was similarly tricky to map out:

- what the "ideal" behavior one expects is,

- what edge cases exist,

- how to handle the edge cases,

- maintaining ideal behavior while handling edge cases.

(It was tricky b/c SwiftUI lays out its children, then its parent -- so the parent needs to ask its children for its view size, and iterate and set rows/columns that way.)

Maybe because the problem seem simple, it is that much more fun to dig into. Some good ol' time with a whiteboard.

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