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		devit on Nov 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implement... I'm curious about why they decided to develop Allsorts instead of just using Harfbuzz.

wezm on Nov 20, 2019 [–]

pcwalton captures it pretty well in a comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21580718 that and wanting to have an implementation in a memory safe language that might prove useful to others.

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