Final on Nostr: Chromium team developed a new font rendering library (Skrifa) as part of their ...
Chromium team developed a new font rendering library (Skrifa) as part of their Fontations library written in Rust. Skrifa now provides memory safe rendering for all web fonts since Chromium 133 for Android, ChromeOS and other Linux distributions:
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts
The above article lists examples of vulnerabilities exploited in the wild contained within the FreeType renderer that it seeks to replace.
This is a post from 2022 about Android about the increased use of memory sage languages.
https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-languages-in-android-13.html
> Android 13 is the first Android release where a majority of new code added to the release is in a memory safe language.
Android has much more heavily adopted Rust since then. It's nice to see Chromium starting. This provides significant benefits to #Vanadium and #GrapheneOS users.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts
The above article lists examples of vulnerabilities exploited in the wild contained within the FreeType renderer that it seeks to replace.
This is a post from 2022 about Android about the increased use of memory sage languages.
https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-languages-in-android-13.html
> Android 13 is the first Android release where a majority of new code added to the release is in a memory safe language.
Android has much more heavily adopted Rust since then. It's nice to see Chromium starting. This provides significant benefits to #Vanadium and #GrapheneOS users.