David GerardMar 4
fuck. harfbuzz has fallen. https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597
behdad (@[email protected])

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

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Show threadlhpMar 5

@davidgerard stuff like this really kills my motivation for working on any of my projects. No matter how much thought and attention to detail you put into it, it'll probably depend on some library which maintainers have fallen for the AI thing.

Sometimes I do wonder what the point even is anymore...

To me this is even more disgusting than proprietary software.

Show threadErik WesseliusMar 5
@lhp @davidgerard I checked and it turns out many packages on my desktop system depend on harfbuzz. It seems almost impossible to do without harfbuzz so I hope someone will create an AI-free fork. Quite worrying.
Show threadDavid GerardMar 5
@erikwesselius @lhp yeah it's in basically everything that renders a glyph
Show threadlhp
@davidgerard @erikwesselius guess I'll just hardcode a hand-drawn bitmap font
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