Google Chrome Replacing FreeType With Rust-Written Skrifa For Font Handling

Web Fonts brought the Chrome browser to the screen for a long time with the help of the FreeType library. However, the developers successfully exchanged for the Rust-implemented counterpart Skrifa. The change took place mainly for two reasons. First and foremost Rust prevents some memory errors against C, which the FreeType programmers use. Chrome will

Memory safety for web fonts in Chrome: Google replaces FreeType with Rust-based alternative – OSnews

There’s no escaping Rust, and the language is leaving its mark everywhere. This time around, Chrome has replaced its use of FreeType with Skrifa, a Rust-based replacement. Skrifa is written in Rust, and created as a replacement for FreeType to make font processing in Chrome secure for all our users. Skifra takes advantage of Rust’s memory safety, and lets us iterate faster on font technology improvements in Chrome. Moving from FreeType to Skrif…

Google Chrome Replacing FreeType With Rust-Written Skrifa For Font Handling

The Google Chrome web browser is moving away from the FreeType font rendering library and instead pursuing their Skrifa project that is written in Rust for better memory safety around handling fonts on the web...