allsorts VS RedReader

But again you don't need to reinvent text layout from scratch (that's my discussion, BTW) if you use the platform's native text drawing facilities, like DirectWrite on Windows, or CoreText on macOS.

All these layers of Cows create an extremely complex lifetime tree and it's actually not possible to factor out the complex parsing steps into functions because they depend on a lot of stuff. (trying to return an OutlineBuilder from a function would dangling reference about 3 different temporaries, for example. Obtaining the temporaries is part of the parsing step)

machine learning, neural networks, image processing, cryptography (though it is getting better), font shaping/rendering (though it is getting better), CPU/software rendering (though it is getting better)

It can be used for the things you suggest but our driving use case is font parsing. The goal is to use it to generate the font parsing code in Allsorts, which is ultimately used in Prince.

Use allsorts or rustbuzz for text shaping

Loader -> Allsorts

It's something I'd like to improve on in future -- are there any pure-Rust libraries you'd recommend for shaping? Allsorts looks quite promising.

Are there any advantages to using the official Reddit app instead of something like RedReader?

https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader

{ "id": -1, "name": "RedReader", "description": "RedReader is a third-party Reddit app for Android, notable for being more accessible than many other apps. It was granted an exemption by Reddit to be allowed to operate for free, so the decision was made to replace the icon with Slide. (The icons for other exempted apps, such as Dystopia, were not changed for some reason.)", "links": { "website": [ "https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader" ], "subreddit": [ "RedReader" ] }, "path": { "11-15": [ [ 37, 22 ], [ 39, 22 ], [ 42, 24 ], [ 42, 28 ], [ 39, 30 ], [ 37, 30 ], [ 34, 28 ], [ 34, 24 ] ] }, "center": { "11-15": [ 38, 26 ] } }

I've submitted it on GitHub

Feel free to submit a feature request for it but it's very unlikely available in the API

Nope. The developer previously mentioned not wanting to do that because it could be confusing to the user. Feel free to submit a feature request for it if you feel strongly enough.

Nope. There is a 3 year old request for a card view which might be able to show more post information like the first line. Feel free to give that a thumbs up.