Blend2D Reaches Beta As High Performance 2D Vector Graphics Engine

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Blend2D Reaches Beta As High Performance 2D Vector Graphics Engine

Blend2D is a a cross-platform C++ vector graphics library aiming to compete with the likes of Cairo...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Blend2D-Draws-Beta

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Blend2D is a a cross-platform C++ vector graphics library

[karasu]

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

[Blahblah]

Looking at the project site and the repo, this project looks fantastic.

[Weasel]

Good thing it's not written in Rust.

[Danielsan]

What's happened with SKIA, it hadn't to be the successor of Cairo as well???

[ldesnogu]

Phoronix: Blend2D Reaches Beta As High Performance 2D Vector Graphics Engine

Blend2D is a a cross-platform C++ vector graphics library aiming to compete with the likes of Cairo...

Cross-platform but limited to x86 which might limit competition with other libs

[cl333r]

Good thing it's not written in Rust.

If it was we wouldn't have this issue:

Blend2D has now reached beta but there still is a lot to be worked on including multi-threaded rendering, async rendering

I wouldn't write an app in Rust but if it had to be multi-threaded from the ground up I'd certainly try doing it in Rust as it does an amazing job (like no other systems language) at telling you you're doing something wrong with your threads and data.

[cl333r]

Cross-platform but limited to x86 which might limit competition with other libs

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.

[JonathanM]

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.

A quick look at the FAQ:

Isn't Blend2D Architecture Specific?

The only architecture specific code in Blend2D is the pipeline generator which will be ported to more architectures in the future. We also plan to make it optional so that Blend2D is able to be used on platforms that do not allow JIT compilation. Software-based 2D renderers will always take advantage of architecture-specific optimizations such as SIMD to accelerate pixel and vector operations.