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0 pointsYgg22y ago0 comments

> Also neither of your examples do any text shaping on the GPU.

Sorry, font rendering. I thought font shaping is part of it. Pathfinder and Lyon were libs.

> Do you not see at least some level of contradiction to these statements?

No? They are discussing Simd and generic interactions.

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riceart2y ago

> 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.

Ygg2OP2y 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.

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