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| pathfinder | allsorts | |
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| 16 | 10 | |
| 3,450 | 696 | |
| 1.6% | 2.6% | |
| 6.3 | 8.4 | |
| about 1 month ago | 4 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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pathfinder
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Capturing the WebGPU Ecosystem
https://github.com/coconut-xr/apfel-kruemel works today, I only know about battery-optimized software in the context of games though.
https://felt.com/blog/svg-to-canvas-part-2-building-interact... and https://github.com/servo/pathfinder/ might also be of interest.
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Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
Parts of Servo to enable the use of the GPU for compositing layers were merged into Firefox years ago.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...
It's a shame that Patrick Walton didn't get a chance to finish his work on the Pathfinder GPU renderer.
>Pathfinder 3 is a fast, practical, GPU-based rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics using OpenGL 3.0+, OpenGL ES 3.0+, WebGL 2, and Metal.
https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
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Forma: An efficient vector-graphics renderer
You might be interested in https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
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What do you believe Firefox is missing?
It uses too much CPU and performance leaves much to be desired compared to Chromium. They were going to use Pathfinder in Firefox to solve this problem, but since Pathfinder is discontinued due to the massive layoffs at Mozilla, the project was abandoned. And they need a replacement IMO.
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Stereokit – open-source mixed reality library by Microsoft
I am not an expert in the area, just somebody who read up on it after realizing desktop in VR does not work out for me (and usually low res is not a problem).
I think something like https://github.com/servo/pathfinder (newer) and as you mentioned SDF (older) are the latest approaches.
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PSA: OffscreenCanvas now enabled by default on nightly only
This is exciting! And, by the way, are you planning to implement something similar to Servo's Pathfinder in Firefox?
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Getting into GUI: Shapes moving on networks
Also on my list was pathfinder. There the documented crate is vastly different from https://github.com/servo/pathfinder which looks much more promising – it comes with a few examples, some of wihch might help me get started, maybe?
- De ce atat de multa lume urăște Java?
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WebKit: Introducing the layer based SVG engine
Have you checked out the Pathfinder library?
https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
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I wrote a web based text editor to showcase sauron framework, but it turns out better than I expected, less than 20ms typing latency.
Don't forget gpu-based text rendering (e.g. #1, #2, #3). It's still in its infant stages, and seems to be mostly untouched over the past 5 years, but I suspect it will become the preferred method for rendering text later.
allsorts
- Cosmic Text: Pure Rust multi-line text handling
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Is it conveninent to make cross-platform GUI softwares using Rust now?
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.
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Getting a pointer to a field of an enum
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)
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Rust's Option and Result. In Python.
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)
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What's the project you're currently working on at your company as a Rust developer?
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.
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Question: Expected webrender impact, or influence, on emacs redisplay
Use allsorts or rustbuzz for text shaping
- Text Rendering w/ HarfBuzz, FreeType and OpenGL
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Text Rendering
Loader -> Allsorts
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Speedy2D: Easy-to-use library for graphics, text, and input events
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.
- Ask HN: How do you use Rust at work?
What are some alternatives?
Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.
rustybuzz - A complete harfbuzz's shaping algorithm port to Rust
lyon - 2D graphics rendering on the GPU in rust using path tessellation.
rust-harfbuzz - Rust bindings to HarfBuzz
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
glium - Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.
sauron - A versatile web framework and library for building client-side and server-side web applications
lingua-rs - The most accurate natural language detection library for Rust, suitable for short text and mixed-language text
Servo - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
fontdue - The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.
StereoKit - An easy-to-use XR engine for building AR and VR applications with C# and OpenXR!
RedReader - An unofficial open source Android app for Reddit.