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  13. Monocypher

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  15. libsodium

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  16. ring

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    27 harfbuzz VS rerun

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  18. scriban

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  20. icu

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  • Harfbuzz Release 11.0.0
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2025
  • Memory Safety for Web Fonts
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2025
    It already is replaced by HarfBuzz https://harfbuzz.github.io
  • Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2024
    Text shaping is anything but easy. Harfbuzz is probably the state of the art open source solution - https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz

    Used in in Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Firefox, GNOME, GTK+, KDE, Qt, LibreOffice, OpenJDK, XeTeX, PlayStation, Microsoft Edge, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Godot Engine, Unreal Engine, ...

  • Tim Peters – Dispelling Information Asymmetry
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2024
    >They do have "Developers in Residence" now

    Yes - three of them, out of dozens of core developers, selected by a process I can't discern. Of course, right now the money simply isn't there to compensate everyone appropriately. (But one wonders why the Steering Council apparently suddenly requires a "Communications Liaison".)

    >The sooner we end this era of "the entire world runs on the good will of bored nerds volunteering their time", the better.

    Python is nowhere near the only project with this problem. If you appreciate the fact that your computer can properly display text in non-European languages, consider offering some support to Behdad Esfahbod, main developer of Harfbuzz (https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz).

    As far as I can tell, Linux and Mozilla are the only two open-source organizations that have any significant revenue behind them. Most are probably even worse off than Python.

  • Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2024
    Font includes WASM code that harfbuzz executes for shaping: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...

    It's an experimental feature, so it's not available unless explicitly enabled during compilation.

  • Font as Tetris
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2024
    You can also build harfbuzz as described here [2] and load it into some program. I used to just install it globally on arch and then use Gimp for the Bad apple example.

    And lastly the same person who made the maze also made a way to use LD_PRELOAD to load a custom harfbuzz into arbitary software so you can follow that guide as well: [3]

    [0]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy

    [1]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples

    [2]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...

    [3]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font

  • HarfBuzz: Text Shaping Engine
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
  • Rive Renderer – now open source and available on all platforms
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2024
  • Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023
    For C/C++ projects that use meson as the build system, there is an excellent way to manage dependencies:

    https://mesonbuild.com/Wrapdb-projects.html

    https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html

    meson will download and build the libraries automatically and give you a variable which you pass as a regular dependency into the built target:

    https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/005ad32358f12fe9313a4a0191...

    https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/tree/main/subprojects

    https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/37457412b3212463c5...

    Or, if you're using proper operating systems, they're managed by the usual package manager, just like everything else.

  • The Web Assembly Shaper
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 9 Jul 2023
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    www.influxdata.com | 14 May 2025
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