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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chx Mar 5

@behdad by including LLM output, you have made one of the best open source libraries unusable from at least ethical, legal and software security angles. More angles are possible, these are the ones that come to mind immediately.

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GreenDotGuy

@chx @behdad IIRC, the Linux kernel has LLM-sourced code in it. While I'm not a huge fan of LLM-generated code in general, I draw a distinction between products written with LLM help and products that feed my data to LLMs. Same way I might not like eating titanium, but I don't mind if the machines on the conveyor belt at the food factory use it.