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Raph really, really knows his stuff. His interview on the New Rustacean podcast starts with a summary of his background: Gimp, Ghostview, android font rendering

• catawbasam 10y ago
  Yup, I still remember being blown away by his dissertation. That he is using Rust in earnest is enough reason for me to take another look at the language.
• microcolonel 10y ago
  For what it's worth; Gimp, Ghostscript, and Android all use FreeType for text rendering. At best, they would require him to know how to use FreeType bitmaps correctly (i.e. gamma-correct blending, when to multiply colours in). Though he could easily go beyond that, it is very interesting stuff and I find it incredibly hard to stop myself from reading into FreeType.
• cdbattags 10y ago
  Any chance we can get a link? Edit: Whoops, see below. And for the lazy: http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/interview/_2/index.html http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/interview/_2/index.ht... (credit to @wscott)
• zellyn 10y ago
  Your 10x speed, 90% functionality caution is definitely warranted. I've lost count of how many times I've seen "we run Python/Ruby/Perl/whatever" 3x faster, just haven't implemented exceptions and monkey-patching yet. :-)
• on_and_off 10y ago
  As a font neophyte I can only say that he sounds like he breathes fonts. His interview in Android dev Backstage was very interesting : http://androidbackstage.blogspot.fr/2015/01/episode-20-fonts-and-audio.html http://androidbackstage.blogspot.fr/2015/01/episode-20-fonts... (And the whole podcast is an easy recommandation. Googlers talking about Android dev stuff from an insider perspective)