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But is there a real world use case, where this actually was put to use?

(Sorry, I am having flashbacks of the debate with X and wayland, where it was argued, but X is network transparent, except that it wasn't anymore since a long time and, or because - no one used it)

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The "Save to PDF" feature in Firefox's print settings uses the Skia-to-PDF renderer on various platforms, I believe.

And for SVG?

Having features is nice, but not if they are not really necessary and come at the cost of the core feature (performant screen renderer).

The problem here, is that you have no clue what the core features of a UI toolkit need to be.

If performance was the primary concern, GTK and QT, would not be generations behind (a claim I am skeptical of.)

UI toolkits have a much larger audience than the tiny corner of the industry you work in.

Well, it just so happens that I build a UI toolkit over the last decade, but yes with performance in mind and not featuritis. But apparently I have no clue, well sad to hear that. I'll show myself out.

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