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> Sorry, font rendering. I thought font shaping is part of it. Pathfinder and Lyon were libs. They don't do GPU font rendering either. Pathfinder isn't widely

> Sorry, font rendering. I thought font shaping is part of it. Pathfinder and Lyon were libs. They don't do GPU font rendering either. Pathfinder isn't widely used -- see my original post about "spinning wheels". GPU font rendering hasn't demonstrated much real world value for GUIs. Where it does get used a bit is games - an industry that is overwhelmingly C++ for the foreseeable future. > No? They are discussing Simd and generic interactions. I was responding to this: "I'd like to add - people have been doing large scale parallel software development for years in C++, in spite of C++." Regardless, Rust still depends entirely on the years of research and development in C++ for a memory model which is a core underpinning of parallel programming.

Ygg2 3y ago
> Pathfinder isn't widely used Ofc. Servo was shut down before anything could happen with it. Making production-ready GPU font rendering is hard. It's not spinning wheels anymore than OSS life cycle is spinning wheels (author needs functionality X author makes a useful lib for X -> it becomes popular -> amount of work increases -> due to pressure/changes in life author abandons lib -> another author has needs functionality X -> ...) > I was responding to this: "I'd like to add - people have been doing large scale parallel software development for years in C++, in spite of C++. Saying Rust has issues doesn't negate C++ having massive issues but also a bigger mindshare.