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Google Chrome Replacing FreeType With Rust-Written Skrifa For Font Handling
The Google Chrome web browser is moving away from the FreeType font rendering library and instead pursuing their Skrifa project that is written in Rust for better memory safety around handling fonts on the web.
Skrifa is written by Google engineers in the Rust programming language and aiming for better security than FreeType for font handling within web browsers. Skrifa is written in Rust and aims to tackle the subset of FreeType functionality used by Google's Skia graphics library. Delivering safer code to users and gaining developer productivity is a huge win for us.
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