HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library

HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library

Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple’s Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements… https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-14.2-Released