Introducing fulgur: a blazing fast HTML-to-PDF engine in Rust — no browser required

fulgur — (noun, Latin) lightning, flash of lightning. I've been building fulgur , an HTML-to-PDF engine written in Rust. No headless browser, no Chromium, no WebKit — just an HTML parser, a layout engine, and a PDF writer, glued together with a pagination layer. The current numbers (v0.5.14, 200-page document): 190 ms end-to-end 57 MB peak memory Byte-identical PDF output across runs This post is the story of how it got there: why I started it, what it's built on, what it can do today, and how I