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New font renderer written in Rust
Jack Jennings
Posts: 151
Haven't gotten a chance to check this out in detail, but this project to produce a new font renderer using the Rust programming language looks very interesting: https://medium.com/@raphlinus/inside-the-fastest-font-renderer-in-the-world-75ae5270c445
Beyond the large speed-up claimed by the initial post, using Rust has some interesting implications in how inherently stable programs written in it are. There have been a growing number of C-to-Rust rewrites, and it would be great to see some of that effort come to the underlying font software as well.
Sidebar: this isn't exactly "Type Design Software", but that seems to be the closes category available. Mods, perhaps just "Type Software" would be sufficient and more usefully general?
Beyond the large speed-up claimed by the initial post, using Rust has some interesting implications in how inherently stable programs written in it are. There have been a growing number of C-to-Rust rewrites, and it would be great to see some of that effort come to the underlying font software as well.
Sidebar: this isn't exactly "Type Design Software", but that seems to be the closes category available. Mods, perhaps just "Type Software" would be sufficient and more usefully general?
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