There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Vello has been a big inspiration and source of knowledge for my own webgpu text renderer, thank you for that!

> high performance text

Just strings or rendering strings?

If the latter, who are the other members of the club?

Yeah, probably should have made a more substantive comment. I'm mostly thinking of the trio of Skrifa, Harfrust, and Parley, but there is other open source Rust work that qualifies as well.

There's also, very relevantly, the DWriteCore work from Microsoft. My understanding is that there's been some talk of open sourcing that, but it's still proprietary.

There are other things that count as high performance text in memory safe languages, for example implementations in Go, but in general those are not a good candidate to replace C and C++ in environments like operating systems and browsers.

Thanks.

Skrifa - Skia in Rust. https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/tree/main/skrifa , https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts

Harfrust - HarfBuzz in Rust. https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfrust , https://github.com/googlefonts/oxidize

Parley - text layout in Rust. https://github.com/linebender/parley

DWriteCore - the Windows App SDK implementation of DirectWrite. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/directwrite/...