Can pathfinder be used as a drop-in replacement for freetype

[pushqrdx]

I was wondering whether it's possible to use pathfinder as my default font rasterizer on Linux in place of freetype

[s3bk]

Possible yes, but how should it be replaced?
If you have to replicate the entir C-api, it will require a lot of work and introduces all C problems again.

[pushqrdx]

@s3bk ah, I thought there might be a minimal set of functionality that most modern applications use out off of freetype that can be exposed via some shim to use pathfinder instead. Idk the idea of benefitting from all the pathfinder features on Linux seems very interesting.

By the way does recent versions of Firefox use pathfinder by default now?

[s3bk]

By the way does recent versions of Firefox use pathfinder by default now?
I don't think so. I think they still use Skia.

The problem that I see is that freetype has a very "unique" api. And I am not sure anyone would want to replicate that.