Show HN: Tatfi – A Font Parser in Zig
sr.ht
Hello
I am currently unemployed so I am filling my time porting Rust libraries to Zig. This is a port of ttf_parser [1] which is used by almost the entire Rust ecosystem.
The port is not complete yet, but I think there is enough utility there to build shapers and rasterizer on top of it just fine.
Just like the Rust original, `tatfi` is almost stateless, almost allocation-free, and aims to be completely safe and panic free. Obviously Zig does not have the same safety guarantees as Rust, but I tried my best. It does help that there is almost no allocation in the library.
There is still need to add tests (port the tests), and I will work on those as soon as I finish the API surface.