cosmiciron/vmprint

This layout engine can solve the hardest layout problems imaginable. Its output is DTP grade and deterministic. It's faster than engines written in C++ because it's not traditional. Backed by game engine tech, it has a microkernel and runs a spatial-temporal simulation instead of a giant complex pagination loop.

78 best points · 57 comments · 1 Hacker News post · 679 GitHub stars · View on GitHub

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• Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs (78 points, 57 comments, by cosmiciron, 2026-03-01)