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
Kevin Graaf
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