[cairo] Microsoft Embracing Skia

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

According to
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/08/microsoft_announces_csharp_mac_dev_for_visual_studio/>,
Skia “is a better and more robust solution than .NET's System.Drawing
graphics API, said de Icaza”.

That surprises me just a bit. Skia is the underlying 2D graphics engine
used on Android, which I have used to do a few things. It seems roughly
comparable to Cairo in most ways, though it has a few extra effects
available <https://skia.org/user/api/skpaint>.

In other words, the idea that it can offer such a significant advantage
over anything Microsoft has already developed ...