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Comment by reikonomusha

I'll be curious to see if Typst will at all have the lasting power of TeX. If it doesn't for whatever reason (maybe the authors get bored of it in a decade?), OP will certainly have to look back.

TeX is essentially hermetically sealed, device-independent software, all the way down to how the curves of the fonts are constructed. It's in some sense better than open source: all of the code is written in a precise, expository manner, than can be understood by any computer scientist 100 years from now. It can be purchased as a literal and markedly beautiful book, typeset in itself. It has virtually zero dependencies. It has been around now for ca. 50 years. It has a vibrant and passionate community of users. It's in the workflows of academic publishers.

TeX is a beacon of truly long lasting, unkillable, maintainable software.

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