The two funded full-timers focused on making a font editor using druid as the GUI toolkit. I personally think this is the best way to grow an ambitious new toolkit from scratch. Also, there's overlap with the xi team, but in Silicon Valley speak you might say we've pivoted.
The GSoC student project is a GPU compute renderer for 2D graphics. Early experiments (piet-metal) show promise that this could advance the state of the art.
How coupled is druid to druid-shell? It would be great if it would easily be embeddable into projects that already have platform native windowing code.
It definitely depends on druid-shell, but we're also thinking about being a good guest (ie for VST and the like). But honestly our focus is full desktop apps right now.
