The Chrome browser on Android, Linux and ChromeOS now does all its web font processing using a Rust-based library (Skrifa) instead of its old C++ library (FreeType).

This is part of a general trend. If you look at open jobs by programming language required, Rust is now #7 (up from #10 last time I looked). C++ and C# are declining drastically, Python, SQL, Java, and JavaScript/TypeScript are the top 5 and all growing rapidly. (Golang is #6, and also growing similarly to Rust.)

I'm testing Zulip as a possible hub for the Liblast community:

https://liblast.zulipchat.com/join/fbirc5h2norg6mjdvxjnt7v5/

Feel free to join and test with me :)

Why Zulip and not... Discord?
Because Discord is... ugh. Not a good platform for productivity or privacy.
Also we couldn't ever self-host a Discord server, and it puts limits on us unless we pay.

Zulip on the other hand is happy to sponsor FOSS projects like Liblast, and they have granted us a sponsorship - free hosting.

- unfa