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Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images. See documentation for contribution instructions.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 1 story, 14 comments · first 2016-03-26 · latest 2025-08-21

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  1. https://github.com/google/skia
    comment by kermatt · 2025-08-21 · in Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?
  2. …implementations: - canvaskit-wasm from the skia project - I don't think it's gpu-accelerated: https://github.com/google/skia/tree/main/modules/canvaskit/n... - @napi-rs/canvas - This is the fastest binding:…
    comment by kevlened · 2024-12-04 · in Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
  3. …Homepage: https://skia.org/ Source: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/ (or) https://github.com/google/skia Also -- there's this old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28143972 where the following github projects which invol
    comment by peter_d_sherman · 2023-07-17 · in Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with font support and many back-ends
  4. …WASM so i think its a nice solution in the beginning but you might want to ditch it later on. [0]: https://github.com/google/skia/tree/main/modules/canvaskit
    comment by vmarchaud · 2023-01-29 · in Ask HN: Is WASM (WebAssembly) getting adoption in real use cases?
  5. Skia includes a module for path operations: https://github.com/google/skia/blob/main/include/pathops/SkP...
    comment by dazilcher · 2022-08-16 · in Deconstructing Bézier Curves
  6. …but there's a lot of GLES and I think some DX calls in there. More than if it was just composing. https://github.com/google/skia/tree/main/src/gpu/ganesh/gl
    comment by ReactiveJelly · 2022-07-16 · in Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs
  7. Maybe this Skia: https://github.com/google/skia
    comment by edumucelli · 2022-03-17 · in Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents
  8. https://github.com/google/skia/blob/master/experimental/c-ap... do you mean this?
    comment by kimown · 2019-07-20 · in CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly
  9. The NPM package doesn't list any dependencies: https://github.com/google/skia/blob/master/modules/canvaskit... I'm not saying you are wrong, but if the NPM package needed more stuff it would be in the package.json, no?
    comment by pier25 · 2019-07-19 · in CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly
  10. …feel that any understanding of modern 2D graphics performance would be complete without that. [0]: https://github.com/google/skia/tree/master/src/compute/skc
    comment by raphlinus · 2019-04-05 · in Blend2D – 2D Vector Graphics Engine
  11. Just to take a look I opened the Project Zero main blog page and the newest article was on a bug in https://github.com/google/skia/ so I'm not sure I can take your comment with any ounce of credibility.
    comment by zamadatix · 2019-02-24 · in Examining Pointer Authentication on the iPhone XS
  12. Skia does not have a stable ABI, which is a requirement for inclusion in the NDK: https://github.com/google/skia/blob/master/experimental/c-ap...
    comment by mdwrigh2 · 2018-01-15 · in Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
  13. …OpenGL calls are translated to DirectX with a very sophisticated OpenGL translator called Angle ( https://github.com/google/skia/blob/master/gyp/angle.gyp ) I'm aware of that. But ANGLE can't possibly be better than Direct3D; in fact, it…
    comment by pcwalton · 2016-03-26 · in Chrome is the new IE
  14. …uses Skia, a 2D rendering library. Skia uses Direct2D (DirectWrite) on Windows for font rendering ( https://github.com/google/skia/blob/master/src/ports/SkTypef... ) Skia has a GPU backend that uses OpenGL where that's native. On Windows,…
    comment by kjksf · 2016-03-26 · in Chrome is the new IE