Oxidize – Notes on moving Harfbuzz and Freetype tools and libraries to Rust
The "oxidize" project on GitHub aims to migrate tasks from Python & C++ to Rust, such as shaping, rasterization, font compilation, and manipulation. It outlines objectives, priorities, and references. For more details, inquire further.
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4 commentsThe author of HarfBuzz has published [State of Text Rendering 2024](https://behdad.org/text2024/), where he [describes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UnR2zKf3Z_DDRS6vLgBkSHUe...) the ongoing rewrite of the entire open-source text 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 already published to crates.io, too!
The intent does seem to be to completely replace the C/C++ code in HarfBuzz and FreeType in Android and Chrome, which would be a massive win for security. Numerous other HarfBuzz/FreeType users such as Firefox and all the Linux desktop would also benefit.
Curiously, Microsoft is rewriting their proprietary font parsing code in Rust as well: https://redd.it/12yg3cp
Same but in golang
Used by gio, Fyne and ebiten golang gui projects
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