Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by electricslpnsld on Sunday January 14, 2018 @05:29PM
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This looks really useful! Does anyone know how this compares to something like Cairo?
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Skia (via SkiaSharp) is the rendering backend for my vector graphics diagramming application (https://vexlio.com). I chose it in part because it had much better performance than Cairo when I was testing both. Also the MIT license was more appealing to me than Cairo's LGPL or Mozilla Public License.
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by tenken on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:22PM
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Looks like a nice project. For my own (web development) kind of projects I love to diagram infrastructure, Classes, etc.
But, I do nearly all my work on Linux -- which is a pity because I'd love to try out a tool like Vexlio.
For now I guess I'll continue to stick with yEd, because it actually works everywhere (java works).
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by NKCSS on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:51AM
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Site looks great; well done!
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by emmelaich on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:42PM
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That's the first question that occurred to me so I web-searched.
Seems it is faster and has a broader API. I sort of expected that Raph Levien(1) might have contributed or that Cairo would be part of the base of Skia. But apparently not.
(1) works at Google and wrote Cairo
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by raphlinus on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:50PM
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I did not write Cairo, I wrote libart, and that was a long time ago. I'm good friends with several of the Skia authors, but don't actively work on it myself.
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by emmelaich on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:42PM
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Oh, thanks for the correction.
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by anonova on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:51PM
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Note that Skia is a C++ library and does not provide a stable C API.