[leephillips]

You want pandoc and markdown involved so that you can write once and transform your document into formats other than Typst.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/

[eigenspace]

Personally, I'd much rather just write Typst than pandoc and it's horrible markdown variants. If Pandoc can do a good job of translating Typst documents to other formats, that's great, but I really dislike working with Pandoc's flavour of markdown.