[bigpeopleareold]

I searched for a comment to supports the fact that LaTeX shines in certain areas.

My memory of LaTeX has weakened over the years, since I am not writing long texts with lots of figures and such, but I know it's more than this statement let's on in the article: "Something that is more modern than learning a hundred bits of print typesetting that your student will never, ever need?"

What exactly is, in the end, is 'modern'? Is it because there is less syntax in Markdown to remember and the Modern is syntax-adverse? :D Aren't there editors for these in the first place to avoid the daily grind of remembering syntax?

[BlueTemplar]

Modern as in "more recent" (and not as in "the modern era" that ended decades ago). More recent doesn't mean better though : the likes of Overleaf, Google Docs, Github are also "more modern" than some of their alternatives, yet ought to be avoided like the plague.