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by kzrdude 410 days ago
They are a very small team and this is a known issue - there is a website refresh coming up that will fix it

They developed the main face of the product first - the online webapp which has live collaboration - which sounds like a sane choice for a new company.

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> sounds like a sane choice for a new company.

It does, but this is actually part of the critique. Typst is developed by a company, while LaTeX is not.

Why is that a bad thing, though? To me this actually sounds a net positive for two reasons: first, there's a single coherent overarching design, and second, so long as their business model is sustainable, it means that the product won't suddenly disappear because of maintainer burnout etc.
Yeah, today's open source combines the worst from corporate jobs and social media. Typst looks nice though, but is indeed developed in a logic of a business