2026-10-23 20:54 UTC
Before people go all in on Typst, I’d like them to consider the wisdom of replacing TeX, software that is:
- Absolutely finished
- Essentially bug free
- Written in a simple, highly portable language
- Extremely general
- Backwards compatible with decades old code
…with a commercial product that relies on an enormous tangled web of dependencies amounting to millions of lines of code for something which is far less general than that which it replaces
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@glocq@mathstodon.xyz 2026-10-23 21:15
@kevin@fedi.kbg.sh Did you perhaps miss that Typst (the web app) relies on the `typst` self-contained executable, whose source is released under the FOSS Apache license, and whose (command-line) interface is dead simple? Otherwise I have no idea what you're talking about... (this is a genuine question by the way)