googlefonts/oxidize

Notes on moving tools and libraries to Rust.

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…Harfrust - HarfBuzz in Rust. https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfrust , https://github.com/googlefonts/oxidize Parley - text layout in Rust. https://github.com/linebender/parley DWriteCore - the Windows App SDK implementation of D
comment by WalterGR · 2026-06-16 · in Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter
…rendering stack in Rust which is funded by Google Fonts. The motivations for it are laid out at https://github.com/googlefonts/oxidize , and the actual code is at https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations . The individual crates are…
comment by ladyanita22 · 2024-07-11 · in Oxidize – Notes on moving Harfbuzz and Freetype tools and libraries to Rust