people always ask me this like they heard its a concern or something. To me it seems pretty intuitive. each widget can ask how much available space it has and can render inside that or less without any knowledge of its container. Containers set the available space.

In my timelines I use a strip layout, just 1/n of the screen with a minimum size and a horizontal scrollbar if it doesn’t fit.

Then I just render notes inside those strips. I like that each thing on the UI is a self contained struct or function, everything composes together very nicely just by immediate-mode render commands. Its 1000x less bs than the dom and virtual dom nonsense. 

 Good thing I don't use react.

https://image.nostr.build/b78f9040671db796fe993c996d1f7cee06a46230ab9f847b7a4b421e8b15be44.jpg 

 I really don’t understand this criticism. egui supports many layout options and its as simple as wrapping the surrounding widgets with a call to what layout you want to use. I don’t spend much time thinking about layout at all. It’s pretty much the same as swiftui: oh you want horizontal? Wrap it in an HStack (ui.horzontal), vertical? VStack (ui.vertical). It even supports wrapping text if it hits the right end of the container. 

 That actually sounds better than

flex flex-col gap-3 

 css is dogshit in comparison. Its a hack on a hack on a hack 

 CSS is my least favorite part of web, followed by html. 

 Tailwind is the only thing that makes it bearable 

 I refuse to front end without tailwind. 

 Wait, you use egui for the desktop client? 

 Yeah android too, its the same client just rendered different on mobile 

 Holy shit, I should seriously give egui another investigation. I tried it last year but was punched in the face by Rust. 

 definitely helps to not be new to rust. I found myself getting frustrated awhile back but then I realized what I needed was lifetime annotations and I just never knew how to use them to get around borrow checker issues. 

 using them I was able to make the rust nostrdb bindings zero copy, which is a big deal when you are rendering at 144fps+ and hundreds of queries are being executed every frame. nostrdb is really this fast and its bonkers. 

 Have you published the nostrdb binding as a rust crate yet? 

 Yes its just the nostrdb crate