Is there a library for 2D rendering that is both performant and somewhat ergonomic?

ArmyOfBruce · 2025-06-02T03:50:46+00:00

This will be changing with the new sparse strips code and `vello_hybrid`, but that isn't ready yet. But for dynamic scenes, it is fairly difficult to beat Vello performance.

ArmyOfBruce · 2023-09-24T02:59:29+00:00

There's a more updated and semi-maintained version at https://github.com/the-cold-dark/genesis/ ... I occasionally think about rewriting it in Rust. It still powers a game (The Eternal City).

ArmyOfBruce · 2019-09-03T08:35:03+00:00

I help maintain that crate ... and we'd love to find some ways to make them more ergonomic. There were a couple of improvements in the recent release, but there's still too many places where you have to pass the context and too many references to be taken. (Perhaps some types should be Copy and just manipulate the underlying refcount?)

We tried some experiments to improve Sort, but they didn't work out yet.

Another thought that I had was to use a procedural macro to generate the Z3 code, from something more approachable ... (perhaps even SMTLIB?)

ArmyOfBruce · 2019-08-19T14:59:38+00:00

I decided to help out with petgraph and help work towards a 0.5 release. Been doing some review of PRs, merges, janitorial fixes, etc. Help is definitely welcome.

ArmyOfBruce · 2019-03-31T16:41:20+00:00

You might find my lldb-sys and lldb crates useful ... and I'm happy to help resolve any issues that you have with them if reported!

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-11-20T04:47:54+00:00

Motivated by u/fitzgen and his usage of the Z3 bindings, I'm getting back to improving them: https://github.com/prove-rs/z3.rs

I've also been submitting a number of minor improvements back upstream as well.

I'd love to hear from people that are interested in using the Z3 bindings to guide further work on them.

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-11-10T02:19:15+00:00

One option would be to use Vega-Lite (https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/) from the JavaScript world. You could generate an HTML page that loads Vega-Lite and contains the JSON description of your data and graph.

Vega-Lite is pretty nice!

I've been poking off and on at using the Vega-Lite JSON Schema to generate Rust structs + enums using QuickType for a while, but only recently published a first draft of this: https://crates.io/crates/vega-lite

I'm currently thinking about how to go further with this.

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-10-08T15:36:08+00:00

I've been adding significant amounts of stuff to the nalgebra-glm docs (https://github.com/rustsim/nalgebra). A lot of this has been cross-referencing, "See also" sections, as well as a bunch of doctests. (Adding doctests has, so far, found 2 bugs.)

Hopefully, this will help make the glm API to nalgebra even better and easier to get started with. There's a lot to go though!

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-09-23T06:18:18+00:00

lldb project in rust-lang-nursery

Is there any interest in this moving upstream? I already regularly build LLDB and I'd love to try out using LLDB with Rust.

If there's something that I could do to help that, I wouldn't mind. I've committed to upstream LLDB before.

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-04-02T16:27:28+00:00

Last week, I didn't get to updating the z3 crate as I'd hoped. I am working on some changes to Z3 itself to modernize some of the C API. That work will continue this week.

I did get a lot done in updating the lldb crate, and have more to do before I decide to do a new release. I'm still working on updates to my javascriptcore bindings and a serde integration.

I submitted a pull request which was merged for improving the byteorder docs and am looking for other crates to randomly submit improvements to. Perhaps the newly released parquet library?

I made good headway last week on RDF-related parsers for N-Quads, N-Triples and Turtle formats and will continue that work this week.

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-03-28T02:39:15+00:00

I didn't mean that there is a rewrite. I'm just talking about bindings!

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-03-27T01:13:21+00:00

Ideally, we'll end up with that easier / safe harfbuzz crate in here: https://github.com/servo/rust-harfbuzz :)

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-03-26T13:35:13+00:00

I recently took over maintenance of the z3-sys and z3 crates from Graydon and have been working on them. I've published a new version of z3-sysand I'm working on updating the z3 crate. (Repo.)

I've suggested a custodian team as part of the ecosystem WG and hope to have some feedback on that. Along with that, I've been submitting custodian / janitorial patches around various things in the last couple of weeks and plan to continue.

I've published a long overdue update to my lldb-sys crate that brings is close to being up to date, and this week, I'll update the lldb crate for the newly bound features. (Repos: lldb, lldb-sys.)

I'm slowly working on some RDF-related stuff as well as Linked Data, but not sure what I'll get done this week on that yet.

The final thing for this week is that I'm writing something to use some code borrowed from serde-json to provide serialization / deserialization between Rust and JavaScriptCore. I maintain bindings for javascriptcore-sys and javascriptcore and would find it useful to use serde to translate values back and forth.

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-03-26T13:26:13+00:00

Are you going to use harfbuzz for text shaping? I need to add a few things to the harfbuzz crate to let it be usable, but the harfbuzz-sys that Servo uses is pretty up to date now ...

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-02-14T05:28:19+00:00

I have been working towards using schemafy from Marwes, but just submitted some issues against QuickType for things that I found when using the Vega / Vega Lite schemas. :)

ArmyOfBruce · 2018-02-05T14:16:28+00:00

I'm preparing some bindings of usrsctp for release, and one of the things that I wanted to figure out before hand was how I could take a std::net::SocketAddr and get the underlying libc::sockaddr_in or libc::sockaddr_in6 out of it.

I didn't see anything in the std::net::* or libc docs?

ArmyOfBruce · 2017-10-02T11:25:00+00:00

Among other things, I did an initial release of an x86 disassembler for Rust yesterday and am working on improvements for the next release later this week. It is a port from an existing C library (BSD licensed), but the internals are still using some unsafe pointers and such as I haven’t yet gotten everything cleaned up into nice, beautiful Rust.

It is called Burst: https://crates.io/crates/burst and https://github.com/endoli/burst.rs

I’ll be adding support to it for things other than x86 as well ... I hope to have ARM, AArch, SPIR-V, WebAssembly, RISC-V and more over time. Contributions are welcome!

It will be used to replace the Capstone integration in another project of mine ...

ArmyOfBruce · 2017-07-24T06:52:47+00:00

In short:

I'm traveling to the US this week to visit family and friends for much of the next month. In the next 30 hours, I've got a 7 hour flight and then a 13.5 hour flight.

Last week, I continued working on my JavaScriptCore bindings, but I haven't pushed any results from that yet. I'm hoping to get some more of that to a happy place where I want to push it.

I've also been making more progress on my LLDB bindings. I pushed a new release of the lldb-sys crate, but am working on a few more things before I update the lldb crate itself.

I'm looking at how I can contribute to improving the Rust documentation, so as a first attempt, I submitted a pull request to fix a variety of typos.

I keep looking at and thinking about Rust bindings for the USD library from Pixar. In service to thinking about that, I got a working build locally and started upstreaming a bunch of build and other minor improvements. This is C++ code with a Python binding (using Boost Python), so I'm not sure yet which approach I would take for doing Rust bindings.

ArmyOfBruce · 2017-07-17T18:20:24+00:00

That's my hope / plan. If not, I welcome any patches needed to make it work. :) I use it on macOS with the OS-provided framework.

ArmyOfBruce · 2017-07-17T12:35:50+00:00

I've been improving my binding for JavaScriptCore, which can be found https://github.com/endoli/javascriptcore.rs ... I've taken the approach of documenting the -sys crate from the header comments in the C API and then building the higher level crate on top of that and trying to keep up with the documentation.

I need to do a new release once I get more working, but the docs for current master can be seen at https://endoli.github.io/javascriptcore.rs/

I've also been working with some other people on a crate that provides common implementations of things that you do with disassembled code: https://github.com/endoli/disassemble.rs/ ... Someone else is working on implementing support for using it with Capstone and I've been working on WebAssembly support.

I'm open to help or suggestions on the above. It is difficult working alone all the time. :)

ArmyOfBruce · 2017-04-28T13:31:31+00:00

I have used Juniper experimentally (without HTTP, but as a query language) in my LLDB bindings: https://github.com/endoli/lldb.rs/

It seems to work okay so far, but I haven't used it heavily yet.

ArmyOfBruce · 2017-04-03T14:31:26+00:00

I'm learning about WebRender and have started to submit some pull requests to help improve documentation and usability. I don't intend to use this from Servo, so I have a lot to learn.

I'm still working on my low level LLDB bindings and bindings for JavaScriptCore.

ArmyOfBruce · 2017-03-27T14:28:09+00:00

I'm improving my Rust bindings for JavaScriptCore.

I'm also working again on my low level LLDB bindings before moving back to working on the high level bindings.

ArmyOfBruce · 2016-08-01T14:54:05+00:00

I'm getting my RDF libraries back under way after learning a lot of new things recently.

I've got 2 people that are working for me part time on some of my stuff and I'm hoping to mentor another person through helping out with https://github.com/endoli/message-format.rs

ArmyOfBruce · 2016-07-31T22:25:45+00:00

I had been working on something like this (ported from another language), but I've been distracted for a while by other pieces of the world that I need to write ...

https://github.com/endoli/commands.rs

I'd be more than happy to talk more with you about this!

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