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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by electricslpnsld on Sunday January 14, 2018 @05:29PM (#16146879)
This looks really useful! Does anyone know how this compares to something like Cairo?
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by ttd on Sunday January 14, 2018 @05:38PM (#16146930)
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 (#16148460)
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 (#16149779)
Site looks great; well done!
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by emmelaich on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:42PM (#16148525)
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 (#16148560)
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 (#16155888)
Oh, thanks for the correction.
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by anonova on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:51PM (#16147855)
Note that Skia is a C++ library and does not provide a stable C API.
Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by hcmiller on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:26AM (#16159334)
Skia has a C API under development that is our approach to API stability, but it is not comprehensive and still being added to (sometimes by our clients to get access to the APIs they need).