What does HackerNews think of pathfinder?

Parts of Servo to enable the use of the GPU for compositing layers were merged into Firefox years ago.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

It's a shame that Patrick Walton didn't get a chance to finish his work on the Pathfinder GPU renderer.

>Pathfinder 3 is a fast, practical, GPU-based rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics using OpenGL 3.0+, OpenGL ES 3.0+, WebGL 2, and Metal.

https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

You might be interested in https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

I am not an expert in the area, just somebody who read up on it after realizing desktop in VR does not work out for me (and usually low res is not a problem, so it is about font aliasing).

Something like https://github.com/servo/pathfinder (newer) and as you mentioned SDF (older) are the latest approaches.

Raph Linus has recently has his work posted on HN, which features GPU rasterization [1]

Also, Pathfinder [2] has the ability to do most of its rasterization on the GPU.

I read somewhere that an experimental renderer for Google’s Fuchsia (Spinel?) [3] also does this.

1: https://github.com/linebender/piet-gpu

2: https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

3: https://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1580&c...

Have you checked out the Pathfinder library?

https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

This demo UI (https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg/blob/master/assets/demo.p...) is the same one I've seen in the Pathfinder (https://github.com/servo/pathfinder) examples. Is it something common, like the tiger used to demo SVG libraries?