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603 points mafro | 2 comments | 27 Aug 25 10:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.475s | source
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milen ◴[27 Aug 25 11:19 UTC] No.45038082[source]▶
Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.
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coxley ◴[27 Aug 25 12:55 UTC] No.45039003[source]▶
Are there any enhancements that you've wanted to do, but haven't had the time?

I'm a huge fan, and am surprised how stable Monodraw has been for me. I've kept a single, growing document open as a scratch pad for the last three years. The only downtime was converting it to the new-ish file format haha.

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milen ◴[27 Aug 25 13:09 UTC] No.45039172[source]▶
The top two features I want to add next are table support and some form of auto layout (like flexbox).

I really care about stability and performance, so I’m happy to hear that it’s being appreciated.

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dboon ◴[27 Aug 25 13:42 UTC] No.45039556[source]▶
There’s this layout library in C called clay which is basically a renderer agnostic flex box style layout engine. You might be interested in reading its source!
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1. milen ◴[27 Aug 25 15:17 UTC] No.45040889[source]▶
Yeah, there's a few such libraries that I'm aware of but I haven't had time to evaluate them. I do plan to at least look into them and make decision from there.
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2. junon ◴[27 Aug 25 16:02 UTC] No.45041471[source]▶
nucleic/kiwi uses the same algorithm that autolayout uses. It's also a tried and true implementation I've used many times, including in console environments.