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I really like the ideas behind Compose! I noticed that Compose, Flutter, and SwiftUI all use similar layout techniques of (i) parent constrains child, (ii) child picks size, (iii) parent places child. Does anyone know where this layout technique originally came from? Is there tool that came before these three that uses the same idea?

Android views have always been: parent calls `measure` on child with constraints; child calls `setMeasure` with size, parent calls `layout` on child with position