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Pure Rust multi-line text handling

10 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2022-10-25 · latest 2025-12-22

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    Build Android apps using Rust and Iced
    story by rekireki · 2025-12-22 · 85 comments
  2. …it will be rustybuzz, which is used directly by cosmic-text https://github.com/harfbuzz/rustybuzz https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text
    comment by 0points · 2024-12-26 · in Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust
  3. …parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months Neither of these setups…
    comment by nicoburns · 2024-03-03 · in CSS for printing to paper
  4. …https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy It needs to be combined with a text layout engine (such as https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text ), and it doesn't support everything yet (notable features that are currently missing: "float", "display:…
    comment by nicoburns · 2023-09-22 · in I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
  5. …laying out "inline-block" items in line with text). [0]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy [1]: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text
    comment by nicoburns · 2023-06-15 · in Conflict-Driven Synthesis for Layout Engines
  6. Libraries for a lot of this stuff exist (albeit in many cases not very mature yet): - https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text does text layout (which Taffy explicitly considers out of scope) - https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit does…
    comment by nicoburns · 2023-04-12 · in We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
  7. …drawing API on top of wgpu) - https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (UI layout algorithms) - https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text rendering and editing) - https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit (cross-platform accessibility APIs) In…
    comment by nicoburns · 2023-04-03 · in XUL Layout is gone
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    Cosmic Text: Pure Rust multi-line text handling
    story by rguiscard · 2023-03-03 · 23 comments
  9. …just one but two projects implementing text layout in Rust that look like they might be viable: - https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text/ - which is still has a way to go but already complex scenarios involving asian and arabic scripts,…
    comment by nicoburns · 2022-12-30 · in Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation (2020)
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    Cosmic Text: Pure Rust multi-line text shaping and rendering for COSMIC
    story by ingve · 2022-10-25 · 1 comment