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Great article, I’ve had the fun of implementing TTF rendering and this piece hits all the memorable points.

One nit, the comparison to Mach-O is anachronistic as TrueType was developed in the late 1980s, while Apple didn’t acquire NeXT until 1996.



TT is just a tagged file format, just like WAV, TIFF, MOV, MP4, etc.

It's probably closer to quicktime, which are the basis of mp4.


Thank you for the correction! I suspected I might have been off here. I've gone ahead and updated the article.


That’s not really a fair nit at all, he just commented that the two formats were similar, one of them must necessarily have come before the other, but they both exist right now.


I don’t agree with that, the quote is:

> Both file formats were developed at Apple around the same time


Ah, indeed, sorry about that. I’d missed that part and just remembered him saying they were similar.




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