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I think this is designed to be a 2d rendering library (similar to skia or cairo) which forms the basis on which an application GUI toolkit could be built. I'm p
by nicoburns 5y ago
I think this is designed to be a 2d rendering library (similar to skia or cairo) which forms the basis on which an application GUI toolkit could be built. I'm pretty sure it's designed to work cross-platform (although I'm not sure if the current prototype does), although it probably relies on an OS of some sort being available.
- ______-_-______ 5y agoPiet is the backend for the Druid UI toolkit. It is indeed cross-platform. The SVG backend looks like it would work without an OS, but I'm not sure the value of a GUI toolkit without an OS anyway :) https://github.com/linebender/piet#backends https://github.com/linebender/piet#backends https://github.com/linebender/druid/tree/master/druid-shell/src/backend https://github.com/linebender/druid/tree/master/druid-shell/...
- nyanpasu64 5y agoA GPU toolkit without an OS API could be useful for WASM rendering, and a rendering library without a GUI is useful for headless rendering (matplotlib graphing, video generation/compositing, meme generators, etc.).