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by red_admiral 5 days ago
Always pleased to see Typst mentioned. TeX made a lot of choices that made sense at the time, but TeX macros and C #defines especially when nested and/or not properly bracketed to allow nesting are a mess when things go wrong.
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kzrdude 5 days ago
It is fun how in computer science terms, TeX and Typst are so incredibly far apart. TeX is a macro language that could be implemented in very little memory, while Typst literally memoizes every typst function's result; to the point where it will eat all available memory if the document and its editing increments needs it.

This reflects the time in which they were developed.

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flerovium114 5 days ago
In what setting are you mixing LaTeX and C code?
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red_admiral 5 days ago
No, no, TeX macros nested within other TeX macros.
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cozzyd 5 days ago
Pretty common to emit latex from C, no?
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