Comment by Koranir
1 day ago
Note that Chrome is replacing[1] FreeType with Skrifa[2], which is a Rust-based library that can handle a lot of the things FreeType is being used for in Chrome. A lot of Chrome's dependencies are being rewritten in Rust.
[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts
[2]: https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/tree/main/skrifa
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