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Re:Skia Canvas: Browser-Less Implementation of the HTML Canv... by 1propionyl on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:47PM (#42312492)
> There isn’t really anything commonly “native” as powerful as skia for 2D drawing

Cairo?

Re:Skia Canvas: Browser-Less Implementation of the HTML Canv... by epcoa on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @06:29PM (#42312876)
I love Cairo, but it’s just not in the same feature or performance ballpark as skia. There’s a reason even Firefox adopted skia. Skia is like the V8 of 2D drawing libraries, just a ton of continual investment into optimization. I used to work on cairo and pixman, it’s great, very straightforward but not finely tuned for performance on modern hardware.