[pydry]

Latex has a lot of caked in design mistakes which are never going away.

Unfortunately typst seems to have replicated the primary one - inventing a new turing complete programming language rather than piggybacking off an existing one.

It's possible to conceptualize a much better latex but it would take years to build properly and build the ecosystem around it to do all the odd things people need when doing markup requiring 1000-2000 community packages.

[BeFlatXIII]

What are the other caked-in design mistakes in LaTeX, and which existing language(s) would you like to see a DSL piggybacked off?