Tx doru!
> On 8 Nov 2019, at 11:41, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks for following the development of Bloc :).
>
> We invest in multiple backends because of several reasons. For example, for
> window hosting we have SDL2 (which relies on polling) and Glutin (which
> relies on a push model), but we also have Morphic. And now, when it comes to
> rendering we have both Moz2D and Skia. These have different properties.
>
> When we started to work with Moz2D, it was the only cross-platform vector
> graphical framework with rich support of text rendering. We knew that we
> eventually need to move away from it, but it allowed us to bootstrap nicely.
> At that time Skia was actually one of the backends of Moz2D. In the meantime,
> Skia evolved significantly. It hasn’t quite reach the level of Moz2D when it
> comes to text yet, but for our typical use cases, it is already good enough.
>
> While Moz2D works fine today, we now want to move to Skia because of
> maintenance and support for newer technologies. For example, both Moz2D and
> Skia are written in C++ which mean we can not directly use both of them via
> FFI and have to implement C ABI bindings anyway. However, for Skia, there
> exists a project (https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia) that provides an
> up-to-date Skia bindings in Rust. This provides a quick way to build and to
> integrate into CI, and it also looks memory safe. Skia also has support for
> Vulkan.
>
> Now, while we target Skia in the short term, we also consider and play with
> other combinations. In particular, WebRenderer looks interesting. For text,
> we could use Skia, or we could also consider using something like font-kit.
>
> I wanted to detail a bit how we work to show how we exercise the underlying
> architecture continuously. A similar story happens on the host side. We think
> it is critical to have as much flexibility as possible at that level, while
> also exposing all underlying abilities in the image. For example, an
> important piece when dealing with text is to have access to accurate
> measurements. So, those are available through Sparta.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
>> On Nov 7, 2019, at 6:52 AM, ducasse <steph...@netcourrier.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi doru and alex
>>
>> Can you tell me why you drop Moz2D and switch to Skia (which to us looks a
>> much safer path starting from the packaging :)?
>>
>> S
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