Re:Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter
by WalterGR on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:08PM
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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/...
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.