rustybuzz VS RedReader

Bit of a side note, but COSMIC depends on the rustybuzz text shaper which is deprecated: https://github.com/RazrFalcon/rustybuzz/issues/74. There was some work underway to bring it up to sync with the latest harfbuzz and then handing over ownership to the harfbuzz team, but this seems to have fizzled out.

I understand that this may sound harsh, but I also ported two (far bigger) codebases from C++ to Rust: rustybuzz and tiny-skia. Both of which are production -ready and not just prototypes. And mine not only do not use pointers, but also barely use unsafe in general.

You could also take a look at the history of this repository: https://github.com/RazrFalcon/rustybuzz

harfbuzz is a popular library for text rendering. You may also want to check out rustybuzz, a small subset of harfbuzz ported to Rust with pretty great documentation.

Use allsorts or rustbuzz for text shaping

Yeah Allsorts looks interesting, and rustybuzz is another option. I haven’t tried either yet, though.

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.