Some people seemed confused by the terms "text shaping" and "segmentation" (rightfully so!), and didn't really understand where existing libraries fit in the overall text processing pipeline. To clear things up, I have written a blog post: newroadoldway.com/text1.html

C11 is the last version of C that I will use. All other versions after that are not C any more.

kb_text_shape v1.02 is out! You can now toggle font features on or off per glyph. (Code that used v1.01 can be recompiled as-is with v1.02) github.com/JimmyLefevre/k…

In "The modern text processing pipeline: Segmentation", I go into the technical details of implementing text segmentation: newroadoldway.com/text2.html

kb_text_shape v1.03 adds a nicer, incremental API for feature overrides, and allows overriding any feature, including those not defined in the OpenType spec: github.com/JimmyLefevre/kb

Does any modern systems programming language care about resumable functions/"coroutines"? How would I do this dispatch in any language that claims I don't need goto? github.com/JimmyLefevre/k…

The Better Software Conference is starting soon! bettersoftwareconference.com

Eskil is currently preaching what many more developers, designers and product managers need to hear:

Dynamic library loading from your statically linked Linux program! Escape Linux libc deps! github.com/graphitemaster…

kb_text_shape is, on average, 4.5x faster than Harfbuzz at shaping: (This is on Harfbuzz's test suite extended with my own. Ryzen 9 5900HX, clang 20, Linux) I would love to get more people's performance numbers!

Never did I expect this to happen! (BLM) Sean Barrett joined me to discuss his legendary work on software rendering! Before there were GPUs, two extraordinary minds led the frontier of rendering on CPUs. When John Carmack worked on Quake, (BLM) Sean Barrett championed rendering technology at

In a few minutes I will be doing a live stream where I go over some of the papers I used to create The Big OOPs. I'll post the link as a reply to this once it is live.

Jimmy Lefevre Luke Kasz That's not true. HarfBuzz doesn't have a result cache.

Get hyped for the upcoming discussion with Jimmy Lefevre about the **beautiful** world of digital text! Here's a short highlight from our 2h talk!

The ARC team has been a great help in testing and informing the design of kbts2. The library is much better thanks to them!

Check out the ARC Starter Kit running in d7samurai's D3D11 example. ARC ships with ready to use renderer backends which is perfect for when you want to quickly add ARC to a project without writing a renderer and or using it as a solid starting point. ARC also ships with a

That's tomorrow!

I always knew the world of digital text, fonts, languages, etc. was complicated, but I never expected it to be this ridiculous! Jimmy Lefevre, who made `kb_text_shape.h` - a library deemed impossible by many - has joined me to graciously explain the convoluted world of text!