[jcparkyn]

For me the biggest ones are:

1. Compilation is ridiculously fast. 2. The language is miles more intuitive, and doesn't require nearly as many hacks. In a handful of hours using typst I've written much more interesting things than I ever would've attempted using latex macros. This might be less important for you, but my latex usage is intermittent, so I've always forgotten it by the next document I write.

[einpoklum]

And do the intuitiveness and speed not come at the expense of some expressive power limitation?

[jcparkyn]

I'm not a particularly hardcore latex user, but in my observation it's the opposite: Because it's a "real" programming language, not just a macro system, it scales much better to complex tasks. Even simple things generally take fewer characters than latex.

E.g., during the preview I built a very basic CAS with it, for simplifying and differentiating simple math expressions, in the span of an afternoon.

[vlmutolo]

The speed comes from a clever incremental compilation model.