[infogulch]

The about summarizes it:

> Experimental Oxidization of Tectonic the TeX/LaTeX engine.

[enriquto]

Does "oxidization" mean "a port to the rust language" ?

[infogulch]

Yes, "oxidation" as in "rusting" as in "converting to rust". It's a bit of fun wordplay. :)

[scoopertrooper]

...but it's forked from an existing Rust port of Latex.

That's the bit that intrigues me; what is the difference between this port and the original?

[infogulch]

If seems to me that upstream is C. https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/

[scoopertrooper]

O'rly?

https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/blob/master...

[kgwgk]

It seems you're linking to wrappers to the underlying https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/tree/master...

[OJFord]

As I understand/recall - the intention was always to be a rust rewrite; the starting point was 'let's take all the C and wrap it in `unsafe`'.

The issue linked up-thread introduces this fork (~ a year ago) titling it '[convert to rust] everything' (emphasis mine), and going on to talk about 'pure rust' (again).

I think the main repo's issue at least would've been a clearer submission than the fork; I initially had the same reaction as above.