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Microsoft rewrites Windows font parsing in Rust
- melony 4y agoRust Evangelism Strikeforce assemble!
- titaniumtown 4y agowindows ported to rust when /s
- phendrenad2 4y agoPosting to HN every time someone rewrites part of their hobby OS in rust is not scalable.
- feet 4y agoIs windows a hobby OS?
- TheGoddessInari 4y agoFor Linux users,
- Beltalowda 4y agoYeah, it's just Raymond Chen working on it on some spare Sunday afternoons.
- puffoflogic 4y agoYou'd be surprised how close this is to the truth, if you ever saw how the sausage is made. There are few easy promotion-worthy projects left to be done for NT or Win32, so little work gets done. A lot of the work is done by people who don't develop Windows as their primary job description, especially Azure folks.
- coviqu 4y agoI heard there was also an internal rewrite of Uniscribe in Rust a few years ago. Never got released as far as I know, but I've been told it laid the foundation for other oxidation projects within the company. Interesting to see this rewrite of DWriteCore, maybe it was inspired by the earlier Uniscribe work.