[Feature Request] Grid Layout

[JulienLecoq]

I think this could be cool to have a grid layout as it's a layout "often" used in GUI apps.

[nicbarker]

@JulienLecoq Definitely agree! I think there's certainly a Grid and/or Table layout that would work well with the other features in clay.

For transparency around my priorities at the moment:

1. Debug Tooling ([Feature] Debug Tools #15) - should ship today or tomorrow
2. Zig bindings
3. A "wrapping" container - think something like flex-wrap in CSS. This is pretty important as it blocks the creation of "rich text", clickable links in text paragraphs etc.
4. Grid or table view

So likely it'll be a month or two before it starts to get looked at 🙂

[Greedquest]

I wrote an algorithm a few years ago for masonry layouts (grids where each element has fixed width but variable height, like a photo gallery with different aspect ratios ) that I haven't seen anywhere even in CSS: it solves a problem that if you have a particular ordering in mind (like search results, most relevant to least relevant), the algorithm CSS uses places the next object on the shortest column but that sometimes breaks the logical flow (see https://youtu.be/W91Wst6fMNU?t=447)

I don't know C, would it be at all useful to propose the algorithm in pseudocode or python?