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cosmic-text
Rust2022–2025
pop-os / cosmic-text

cosmic-text

Pure Rust multi-line text handling

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What it is

Pure Rust multi-line text handling

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-10-25 18:10:55 UTC to 2025-12-22 02:14:32 UTC.

0123452022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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nicoburns·Dec 30, 2022
It's two years since this was posted, and the amazing news is that we now have not just one but two projects implementing text layout in Rust that look like they might be viable: - https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text/ - which is still has a way to go but already complex scenarios involving asian and arabic scripts, which is impressive considering it's only a couple of months old. This one is backed by System76 for use in their new desktop environment - And https://github.com/dfrg/parley which looks abandoned but is already impressively complete and the author has signalled they intend to revisit at the start of this year. This one is being used in the Druid toolkit mentioned in the article (and it's successor Xilem) and also the text editor https://github.com/lapce/lapce which is based on that toolkit.
In Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation (2020)

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