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I’m almost nerd-sniped enough to try and see exactly where it breaks down.

What’s a native render function? Do you mean just using a graphics API as opposed to an off-the-shelf UI library?

What’s a native render function?

As in using DirectWrite or GDI on Windows; or Core Text on macOS. As opposed to shipping your own glyph rasterizer.

Doesn't the blog post specifically say they are shipping their own glyph rasterizer?

No?

To work around this limitation, we decided to stop using Direct2D and switch to rasterizing glyphs using DirectWrite instead.
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