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Re:Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layo... by emilsjolander on Monday April 29, 2019 @04:43PM (#19782428)
Just to be clear, we are not working on it. However it is something I would like to start looking into sometime soon :) This is a huge area for contributions as I myself am not a grid expert (as apposed to having worked on flexbox engines past 3 years).
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Re:Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layo... by nicoburns on Monday April 29, 2019 @05:37PM (#19782831)
> Just to be clear, we are not working on it. However it is something I would like to start looking into sometime soon :)

I hear you, but this is very different to "we're never going to implement this". I might look into contributing, but I've never implemented any layout engine, so I'm not sure how much help I would be!

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Re:Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layo... by emilsjolander on Monday April 29, 2019 @06:10PM (#19783066)
I would love to help talk through how to start and the process i used for the flexbox implementation :) start a PR / Issue and we can discuss :)
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Re:Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layo... by kjsthree on Monday April 29, 2019 @11:25PM (#19784890)
As someone else who knows nothing about how layout engines work, kudos to this response. I understand time and attention don’t scale well and I hope you don’t get overwhelmed but this kind of attitude in open source is the greatest.
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