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YesLogic
Company blog · yeslogic.com/blogprogrammingsystems
YesLogic is the company blog at yeslogic.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Allsorts Font Shaping Engine Year in Review”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its post on allsorts, a Rust font shaping engine. One commenter cites it while noting that PrinceXML's font shaping is written in Rust, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A software company established in 2002, based in Melbourne, Australia.
Most-linked posts?
- Allsorts Font Shaping Engine Year in Review2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-18
What Hacker News says?
This is apparently what PrinceXML (recently discussed on HN) is written in, except for the font shaping engine, which is written in Rust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(software) https://yeslogic.com/blog/allsorts-rust-font-shaping-engine/
Comment linking /blog/allsorts-rust-font-shaping-engine/
on “The Mercury functional programming language”Submitted Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implemented in Rust as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Allsorts Font Shaping Engine Year in Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Allsorts Rust Font Shaping Engine Year in Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussion