CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly

Re:CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly by hackcasual on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:00PM (#20480982)

What if you want a common C++ code base that can run on web or desktop?

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Re:CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly by c-smile on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:42PM (#20481358)

If you want that you will create set of C++ classes wrapping Skia, Direct2D or Cairo with the same API as browser provides.

That is actually what I did in Sciter that is using these libraries for rendering on different platforms - they all have very close feature set - umbrella wrapper is quite simple.

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Re:CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly by hackcasual on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:58PM (#20481510)

Sure, and that's actually what FireFox does, but not everyone is going to prioritize that approach.

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Re:CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly by c-smile on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:04PM (#20481549)

So it is doable. QED.

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Re:CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly by hackcasual on Friday July 19, 2019 @05:02PM (#20482405)

So because someone can abstract away the underlying graphics library, CanvasKit shouldn't exist?

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Re:CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly by c-smile on Friday July 19, 2019 @06:32PM (#20482987)

No.

Because browser already contains Skia (or Direct2D). In native (most performant) form.

Why do you need to download and run Skia inside Skia?

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