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		emidoots on July 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: State of Text Rendering 2024 I agree shaders would be a terrible choice for this. However, the article clearly states there are intentions to move towards much more than just shaping in wasm: > I proposed that the future of font shaping and drawing/ painting will involve a fully-programmable paradigm. > Bad Apple will become much easier and faster when we introduce the draw API in Wasm. > Drawing and painting API will eventually come to HarfBuzz, probably in 2025.

khaled on July 9, 2024 [–]

This is still not rasterization, but a way to modify glyph outlines on the fly. How they are rasterized eventually should be mostly unchanged.

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