HarfBuzz Slug Support with WebGL

tikimcfee

Very cool. I've noticed slug popping up more often on HN and I've been thinking of finding a way to incorporate it into my project as well. Is this yours? What's your rendering system like - anything novel or fun you run into when working with text and GPU parallelism?

notachatbot123

HarfBuzz = text shaping engine, https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz Slug = Formely patented font rendering algorithm for GPUs, freed 2 weeks ago https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html

jasonjmcghee

Note to author: the WebGL has great zoom settings, but WebGPU has different ones that feel very low-sensitivity (at least on trackpad on macos)

eviks

Are there good explanations/demos comparing this to msdf?