<p dir="auto">From the point of view of the Flex implementation, there's children with fixed sizes, and children that are flexible and whose sizes need to be established.</p>
<p dir="auto">But from the point of view of Flex users, the definitions don't make sense. The "fixed" children are the ones that can have any size they want, and the "flexible" children are the ones that get given a fixed size.</p>
<p dir="auto">I've had multiple people say sentences along the lines of "oh, I have to use Flexible so that they get a fixed size" to me while I've been helping them.</p>
<p dir="auto">We've received feedback from new users that our Flex implementation is kinda-but-not-really the Flexbox they know and love from the web. This can cause a bit of friction as they learn how our Flex is and is not Flexbox.</p>
<p dir="auto">We can consider renaming Flex to help avoid users drawing parallels and miss-set expectations. One idea was the rename to Linear.</p>
<p dir="auto">Presumably this would be a breaking change and if we do this, we can email our users, etc.</p>