Skia
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5recommend
4warn against
Nov 5, 2025first mention
Sep 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“his other work on polar stroking influenced one of the gpu-accelerated path renderers in Skia”
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“Most of the big ones are things like skia, harfbuzz, wgpu - all totally reasonable IMO.”
“Skia raster (CPU) gets similarish numbers, which is quite impressive”
“Skia of course solved this the right way.”
Caveats and dissent
“even just building Skia was an annoying chore”
“which is good but still utilise CPU for Path rendering”
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“Skia just renders fonts on the CPU with all kinds of hacks”
“Impeller renderer outperformed Skia”
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Threads where it came up
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- Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia 2 mentions
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- .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser 2 mentions
- Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics 1 mention
- MAUI Is Coming to Linux 1 mention
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“the hard part of this project was being very careful with the semantics of Skia itself”
“the Skia team at Google was super supportive”
“his other work on polar stroking influenced one of the gpu-accelerated path renderers in Skia”
“Avalonia renders through Skia compiled to WebAssembly”
“even just building Skia was an annoying chore”
“plenty of libraries like skia”
“I did have to get Skia for Canvas2d support”
“which is good but still utilise CPU for Path rendering”
I think the other question is how far away this is from a "working" browser. It isn't impossible to render a meaningful subset of HTML (especially when you use external libraries to handle a lot of this). The real difficulty is doing this (a) quickly, (b) correctly and (c) securely. All of those are very hard problems, and also quite tricky to verify. I think this kind of approach is interesting, but it's a bit sad t
“Most of the big ones are things like skia, harfbuzz, wgpu - all totally reasonable IMO.”
“Skia raster (CPU) gets similarish numbers, which is quite impressive”
“Skia just renders fonts on the CPU with all kinds of hacks”
“Skia of course solved this the right way.”
“which uses Skia under the hood”
“is Avalonia using Skia to render inside a Skia Canvas?”
“Impeller renderer outperformed Skia”
“additional Skia and CPU backends”