When I started building Architect of Ruin in December 2023 I chose to build it in the Bevy game engine. My choice was motivated by a personal interest in Rust -- a language I derive a lot of joy in using. This was furthered by Bevy's ECS model which I also find fun to work with and the openness of Bevy's community which I have a genuine appreciation for.So, it came as a surprise that in January...

Bevy, a popular game engine written in the Rust programming language, uses a very capable low level UI layout engine called taffy. Taffy provides Bevy with a facility for defining the relative positions, sizes, and behavior of UI boxes using a CSS style flex-box model. Bevy does not yet provide a high level interface for authoring UI or any kind of layout editor. To make things more complicated...