I can’t wait to see performance benchmarks for this! Pie in the sky dream: if this started being competitive with DirectWrite and CoreText it would be perfect for Alacritty - ligatures for free and a cross-platform Rust dependency instead of a mess of cfg’s.
I don’t think Alacritty uses DirectWrite for rendering though (so as far as Alacritty is concerned, it is a competitor). But it is the case that DirectWrite and CoreText do interesting rendering work that is out of scope for Allsorts.
That would indeed be pretty cool. I’d like to see it get worked into the existing font/type ecosystem in Rust to make adding it to a project easier. That’s probably not a work time project though. :)
I can’t wait to see performance benchmarks for this! Pie in the sky dream: if this started being competitive with DirectWrite and CoreText it would be perfect for Alacritty - ligatures for free and a cross-platform Rust dependency instead of a mess of
cfg’s.Note that this is not a DirectWrite competitor, although it can be a part of that. Allsorts does no rendering.
I don’t think Alacritty uses DirectWrite for rendering though (so as far as Alacritty is concerned, it is a competitor). But it is the case that DirectWrite and CoreText do interesting rendering work that is out of scope for Allsorts.
That would indeed be pretty cool. I’d like to see it get worked into the existing font/type ecosystem in Rust to make adding it to a project easier. That’s probably not a work time project though. :)
Nice work, I can’t wait to try this out! Hopefully I will have some free time over the holidays and next year to try helping with Arabic support.
So this is what you were working on! Super amazing.
Yep. Super excited to have it published.