Mastodawn

HarfBuzz 13.0.0 released with new experimental features: `hb-vector` for vector output of glyph outlines to SVG and `hb-raster` for rasterizing glyphs to A8 / BGRA32 images, among other features.

I would like to welcome our new contributors: Claude & Codex, without whom these new features would not have been possible.

https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/releases/tag/13.0.0

Release 13.0.0 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz

New experimental drawing and rendering libraries: New public hb-vector API for vector output of glyph outlines. The only supported output format currently is SVG. The new API is available in a sep...

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Javier Mar 4

@behdad I'm curious: how do you validate the output from the LLMs?

do you review it as you would a regular PR?

are there automated tests, and who/how are they written?

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mcc

@jerojasro @behdad What are your plans if it is someday discovered your LLM(s) replicated a non-trivial section of code from the training data, and the replicated code in question turns out to have a stronger-than-MIT license encumbrance (for example it could be GPL)?

(LLMs have so far lived a legally charmed life, but this may not be the case in all jurisdictions forever.)