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[The author assumes] a high-level understanding of how text rendering works, for example, what shaping is. If that does not sound familiar to you, you might want to review State of Text Rendering (2009), and Modern text rendering with Linux: Overview (2019).
Yeah, the real benefit will be the ability to re-use well tested and hopefully even proven WASM VMs.