[SkiFire13]

I don't think this was ever my issue with Latex, which instead are mostly:

- the cryptic error messages and infinite logs

- the unintuitive ways to do stuff like store a value for later use or sum two lengths

- the very long compile times

- the amount of reliance on global state from various packages, which contributes to even more cryptic errors or weird behavior when something goes wrong

- various other quirks, e.g. the fact you often need to end a line with a comment or the newline will skrew up your content.

[__mharrison__]

You forgot the of syntax that is latex. Very hard to read. (Worked with it for 20 years)

Typst on the other hand is inherently readable.

[creata]

I could deal with all of the other issues if it weren't for the absurdly long compile times. I wonder where most of that time is spent.

[leephillips]

Some is spent on optimizing the results on the paragraph, page, and multi-page level: river elimination, color balance, widow and orphan elimination, etc. I don't know how much of this Typst does; certainly HTML + CSS does none of it.