[PatronBernard]

I hate a lot of things about LaTeX (also wrote several theses in it, as well as research articles), but the math syntax definitely wasn't one of them. Why on earth would they change it?

[gsinclair]

I think anything that is chock full of backslashes and braces can surely be improved upon.

[Maken]

You will end up with just a different escape character.

[cbolton]

No it really is much lighter, see my examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354520

[_bent]

considering the Typst founders are German I wonder if this was one of their concerns with LaTex. Typing \ on QWERTZ is painful