Specially the exported symbol list bothers me. Ideally that's the job of the optimizer to prune out unused symbols. You were against hardcoding symbols in https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/1652 and I agree. Though more and more I'm thinking that some clients would benefit from a tiny version of library that only has enough symbols for shaping.
Specially the exported symbol list bothers me. Ideally that's the job of the optimizer to prune out unused symbols. You were against hardcoding symbols in https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/1652 and I agree. Though more and more I'm thinking that some clients would benefit from a tiny version of library that only has enough symbols for shaping.