Comment by leecommamichael

4 days ago

I’m almost nerd-sniped enough to try and see exactly where it breaks down.

What’s a native render function? Do you mean just using a graphics API as opposed to an off-the-shelf UI library?

> What’s a native render function?

As in using DirectWrite or GDI on Windows; or Core Text on macOS. As opposed to shipping your own glyph rasterizer.

  • Doesn't the blog post specifically say they are shipping their own glyph rasterizer?

    • No?

      > To work around this limitation, we decided to stop using Direct2D and switch to rasterizing glyphs using DirectWrite instead.