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The State Of Text Rendering 2024 & The Future Of The Stack With Rust

HarfBuzz text shaping engine lead developer Behdad Esfahbod has written a lengthy blog post covering the state of text rendering in 2024

Behdad Esfahbod has written a very lengthy but technically interesting post around the state of text rendering. With the future Rust migration of the text stack for memory-safe programming, Behdad hopes it will unify font compilation and consumption. The post also covers the handling of text rendering across various operating systems, web browsers, word processors, and other common software.

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