Sound great! Last week I started working on a pure-swift graphics library, one goal being fast server-side graphics manipulations, and already have .png decode/encode, and quadratic bezier curve stroking implemented, slowly, and poorly. I’m working on TrueType fonts right now, and intend to open it to other developers once the basic architecture is refined. I intend to add SVG and JPEG support as well. It seems like if there is a “swift-community blessed geometry library”, this would be a natural extension of that, or at least depend on it.
Much of this depends on compression support, which I’ve already published a first cut of at https://github.com/benspratling4/SwiftFoundationCompression . The goal there was a more “foundation” idea of compression than competing libraries, but it suffers from a lack of streaming support. I would absolutely love a “BigNum” library. Several encryption packages out there would benefit from it as well. It seems arithmetic compression libraries would benefit, too. Other useful Numeric types would include rational fractions, fixed-point, and short floats (Float16 is what Apple now thinks the future of images is, right?). I’m happy to contribute; I end up writing those in a new language ever few years anyway. -Ben Spratling > On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Dave DeLong via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > Hi Swift-Evolution, > ... > > We propose to create an open-sourced "Non-Standard Library" effort that > coexists with, coordinates with, and is blessed by the open source Swift > development community. The "Non-Standard Library" will offer a well-curated, > high-value collection of routines, types, and documentation to support Swift > development on all platforms. > … > Suggested Libraries > > There are several areas we think that are ripe for improvement and > implementation as a non-standard library, such as (but not limited to): > A BigNum library > A full-featured Random library > A simplified date/time library > A library for manipulating paths (that is not based on URL or String) > An expanded Swift-native Geometry library and so forth. > The scope and extent of the sublibraries would be proposed and debated on a > parallel Non-Standard Library Evolution development list.
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