agelord

When I was very young, we moved from our home village to the capital city. Pretty long distance, moved a lot.

Wouldn't be surprised.

Typst syntax is already simple enough. Why add an unnecessary layer of abstraction

Yoyo were nice

War?

Probably true everywhere in the world, but may vary across fields of occupation.

Well, Typst isn't directly comparable to plain TeX given how low level plain TeX is. Typst also poses itself as a LaTeX alternative, rather than that of plain TeX. So, I think, it'd be more prudent to compare between Typst and LaTeX.

For beginners, Typst is much easier to get into compared to LaTeX. Typst is also much faster at compiling documents. Error messages are also clearer in Typst. Typst itself is compiled to a single binary, so local installation is as easy as just downloading it and putting it into a directory that's available in $PATH.

I might as well also mention that the Typst web app runs on webassembly (meaning that the browser does the compiling instead of some server), so there is no compile duration limit like that of Overleaf.

If I have to see you whining about windows, you have to see me shilling for linux.

/s

Yes, LaTeX is huge with its many years of development and layers upon layers of abstractions glued on top of one another. This is also why a new start was necessary, this is where Typst comes in, in my opinion.

Check out the absolute chads who created typst.app while writing their thesis because they were frustrated with LaTeX

Ente

That's just running a full fat installation of Windows.