Ask HN: How do I program GUIs to be commutative?

2 pointssamsquire2 comments

I'm working on a personal project to make GUIs commutative.

https://github.com/samsquire/additive-guis

I am struggling to add the commutative property to a layout. I am inspired by N3 syntax, to make GUIs renderable in any order according to rules.

How should I go about this problem?

I want to be able to specify where things are on the screen with rules. Such as the following:

todoField above todosList

todosList above todoFilters

submitTodo rightOf todoField