This post is an excellent encapsulation of why I, an employed AAA games UI programmer, will do my best to avoid ever having to write a custom font renderer ever again. I've done my time and now I'm outsourcing the work to some other sucker. 😌
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since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!
This post is an excellent encapsulation of why I, an employed AAA games UI programmer, will do my best to avoid ever having to write a custom font renderer ever again. I've done my time and now I'm outsourcing the work to some other sucker. 😌
This rules. Love to see some low-level nonsense in the TL, thanks for posting!
It came by my timeline again and it’s still great! Looking at the paragraph-breaking animation again I’m reminded that you might want to implement hanging or half-hanging right-margin punctuation for things like commas and hyphens, which cleans up the paragraphs edges a little.
VERY nice!!!!! this is hard stuff, it's always lovely seeing it done right
VERY nice!!!!! this is hard stuff, it's always lovely seeing it done right