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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gaytabase Mar 4

@behdad extremely disappointed to hear harfbuzz now includes AI contributions. will be replacing harfbuzz in all my software accordingly.

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Max Iorsh Mar 4

@dysfun @behdad
I understand your sentiment, but replacing with what? Uniscribe?

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mcc Mar 4

@iorsh @dysfun @behdad My preference at this point would be to go back to Harfbuzz 12, fork from there, and resume requiring contributors to agree to a DCO that affirms they did not use LLMs

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Johannes Link Mar 5

@mcc @iorsh @dysfun @behdad Maybe we should agree on a common naming scheme and strategy for forking non-ai branches of projects. This way it would be easy to check if there’s a related non-ai project. In addition there should be a „nonai“ TLD so that domain-based package names are obvious as well.

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An Anarchist Pigeon

@jlink @mcc @iorsh @dysfun @behdad AI bros would start falsely labelling their slop with it as soon as it caught on, because a lot of them are motivated by spite.