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Re:Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is abl... by p4bl0 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:10PM (#25076552)
It seems the only alternative is Skia (https://skia.org/), which is a Google project…
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Re:Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is abl... by badsectoracula on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:22PM (#25077195)
AFAIK one issue with Skia is that its API is not stable (and it is written in C++ which makes stability kinda hard) whereas Cairo's API has been stable for a long time.
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Re:Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is abl... by Matheus28 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:15PM (#25077139)
Side note: Skia can't render SVGs directly. You need a separate library to do the parsing and issue commands to Skia. I think they might have experimental support for simple svgs committed in the repo, though.
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Re:Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is abl... by dylan604 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:40PM (#25076861)
great, so it has what 18 months before being killed off?
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Re:Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is abl... by mdwrigh2 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:00PM (#25077530)
Skia has been around for 15 years (open source for 12) and is used in a number of high priority projects for Google (e.g. Android, Chrome). It's incredibly unlikely it will be killed any time soon.
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Re:Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is abl... by Matheus28 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:16PM (#25077146)
It's used by Chrome, Blink, and a lot of other projects, so unlikely to be killed any time soon.
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