Hi folks! Last author here, happy to answer questions, very surprised to see this on HN. We had a blast working on this. Let me add that the Skia team at Google was super supportive, met with us many times to explain a lot of stuff.
I had the idea for this project years ago while writing Web Browser Engineering with Chris Harrelson (see <a href="https://browser.engineering/" rel="nofollow">https://browser.engineering/). Then a few years ago I made a first attempt at this project with Yuvaraj (<a href="https://droidkid.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://droidkid.github.io/), but for various reasons we never got very far. I restarted the project with Bhargav (<a href="https://bhargavkk.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bhargavkk.com/) about a year ago, and focused much more seriously on the semantics of Skia itself, which made progress much more rapid. Still, I was, frankly, shocked by how good the results are.
pavpanchekha · · focus · HN ↗
I had the idea for this project years ago while writing Web Browser Engineering with Chris Harrelson (see <a href="https://browser.engineering/" rel="nofollow">https://browser.engineering/). Then a few years ago I made a first attempt at this project with Yuvaraj (<a href="https://droidkid.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://droidkid.github.io/), but for various reasons we never got very far. I restarted the project with Bhargav (<a href="https://bhargavkk.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bhargavkk.com/) about a year ago, and focused much more seriously on the semantics of Skia itself, which made progress much more rapid. Still, I was, frankly, shocked by how good the results are.