Drafting table style software engineering tools have been around for decades. It turns out that the only ones programmers actually want to use are the ones that

Drafting table style software engineering tools have been around for decades. It turns out that the only ones programmers actually want to use are the ones that deal with something that is actually visual/geometric, i.e. the layout of graphic user interfaces, so those are the ones that were kept; that's how Visual Studio got its name. Nowadays when you need to cater to web browsers and mobile devices with a large range of screen sizes, even those are largely eschewed because the layout has to be redone at run time anyway. But there are still some in use by people who work on fixed size form layouts.