Emacs trunk is now using HarfBuzz for text rendering!
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Terminad is a really interesting approach to rendering markdown in the CLI. It deliberately doesn't render links, so you can always see both the link text and the URL.
In a browser you have hover to see URLs, but not necessarily in a terminal.
Optical disks can suffer from a 'rot' where the material degrades over time, rendering the content unreadable:
After experimenting with emoji on a range of platforms, I've realised it's really hard to develop a good visual across different platforms.
Emoji rendering varies massively based on the system's default emoji set. I ended up using image rendering so all users get the same style.
