i.e. the median Zig programmer is better than the median JS programmer.

This is a relevant read: www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/col...

5. Papaya uses Harfbuzz and FreeType for high quality rendering.

6. Text rendering is done in a worker WASM thread. So it is async and faster than JS.

Text rendering is hard, and literally half of all commits to papaya.io so far. So please let me know when you find bugs! :)

3. This is where @mikkomononen.bsky.social 's excellent Skribidi library came to the rescue. This might be the first WASM implementation of Skribidi in the wild. I was able to make some upstream contributions.

4. Papaya supports Arabic, Chinese-Japanese-Korean, Hebrew, Latin and 20 more scripts.

Hey Mikko, it's basically impossible for me to find your email address anywhere. Any chance you could DM/email me? My email address is on my website.

I'm using Skribidi for emoji, FreeType for everything else. :)

Uh, bsky's image upscaling makes it look weird. But at native res, it's absolutely *chef kiss*

If you've ever worked with font rendering, then you'll know that it's the most impressive to get the fonts looking good at low sizes, because then hinting comes into play, which is where FreeType shines over other simpler libraries.