try Skia

[andrepiske]

• getting a lot of segfaults, Skia lacks documentation, not widely used (yeah it's used everywhere but mostly indirectly like e.g. by chromium, so not a lots of examples online)
• building it from scratch is a pain, so I went with prebuilt binaries provided by https://github.com/JetBrains/skia-pack
• I tried using chatgpt o4-mini-high to get a drawing using Skia, but it hallucinates way too much
• unsure about the benefits of using it. Drawing rotated pictures with Cairo is painfully slow, but there's no evidence that Skia will do better unless of course it uses hardware (e.g. opengl) but I want to avoid using GPUs

A few useful links:

• how to build skia from scratch: https://skia.org/docs/user/download/
• skia fiddle: https://fiddle.skia.org/
• reference docs, like for SkCanvas: https://skia.org/docs/user/api/skcanvas_overview/
• user docs (almost useless): https://skia.org/docs/user/