Comment on State of Text Rendering 2024parentComments−slimsag2yI 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.−khaled2yThis 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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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:
This is still not rasterization, but a way to modify glyph outlines on the fly. How they are rasterized eventually should be mostly unchanged.