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I saw your webpage on programming language choice, but I couldn't figure out how to use the comment box. So here's my comment. Rust seems like a good candidate
by neolog 6y ago
I saw your webpage on programming language choice, but I couldn't figure out how to use the comment box. So here's my comment.
Rust seems like a good candidate. The runebender/druid/xi project has an active chatroom [1] full of people [2,3,...] with deep expertise in typesetting, text rendering, etc.
[1] https://xi.zulipchat.com/ https://xi.zulipchat.com/
[2] https://raphlinus.github.io/ https://raphlinus.github.io/
[3] https://joy.recurse.com/~cmyr https://joy.recurse.com/~cmyr
- dhosek 6y agoI'm not sure why there was a problem with comments for you—it looks like it's correct for me, although no one else has commented so there might be an issue. Rust is intriguing and it looks like some of the issues that are of concern to me are addressed by it (cross-platform, ability to target iOS and JNI)... I'll have to investigate a bit more. If it's got a good PDF writing library I may have a winner, although C++ does offer some really solid abilities with ICU and harfbuzz that appeal to me.
- neolog 6y agoI couldn't figure out what all the boxes were for or why the big box truncated my comment at around 20 characters.
- dhosek 6y agoCertainly, the pain around library usage in C++ is something that would be nice to be able to avoid. A quick google search has turned up Rust bindings for harfbuzz and the print_pdf library (the latter would be superior to dealing with the scant open source C/C++ options most of which seem to have lost their primary maintainers).