Blend2D Reaches Beta As High Performance 2D Vector Graphics Engine

[rene]

If it's true that it's limited to x86 and no plans to fix it asap then it can't compete with the likes of Cairo and won't ever be adopted by Qt or whatnot.

yeah well, that is what you get when you implement your own Just-in-Time compiler, …

[rene]

No, no, horrible thing, rust everything. All the things!

I hope you know what you wish for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNipdcUh7ZE

[Nout]

Similar interesting project: https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder/tree/pf3

Also it's in rust.

[dkasak]

Good news, I heard Cairo is a major bottleneck for Inkscape. Hopefully they can use this.

Hahahahaha! Yeah yeah, I'm sure you 'heard' this ... um .... 'somewhere'. What 'major bottlenecks' do you experience in Inkscape? Do you know what's involved in rewriting a complex app to use a different graphics engine?

[Marc Driftmeyer]

One could have posted this straight from the web site to get an actual complete view of the library.

Blend2D is written in C++ but it provides both C and C++ APIs. Public functionality is provided through C interface so that each feature of the library is accessible to both C and C++ users. The C API makes it possible to use Blend2D from many programming languages which are able to interface with C (either natively or through FFI). The primary goal of the C++ API is to make the library easy-to-use in C++ projects without the need of managing resources manually. It is built on top of the C API and turns all objects requiring initialization and finalization into smart objects that handle it in their constructors and destructors.

[Weasel]

I was just gonna say the opposite, too bad they wasted their time by not implementing it in a modern language like Rust.

You got it backwards, it would've been a pure waste of time if it were written in Rust.

Just like every other Rust project.