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I've completely switched over to Typst and it's so much better. All of the typesetting capabilities of LaTex but without 99% of the headache. Now all it needs is all of the neat little edge case extensions that LaTeX has gathered over the years. And possibly a real scripting language interface like LuaTex.
Interesting, not seen that before. I guess my main concern is whether it has enough community support to keep going if the business part of it goes under?
Also is there a particular restriction to the claimed scripting language that makes it not "real"?
I would say the general design philosophy. It works pretty much perfectly for what it's supposed to do. But the strong suit of LuaTex is that it can execute pretty much any code you want. So, you could in theory execute a fluid simulation each time you compile your document and insert the result as an image. The Typst Scripting language obviously can't do that because it's locked into the typst sandbox.
My particular use case is that I have some data accessible via an open API and I would love to skip the step where I update the data CSV every day or week. So, not really a breaking feature, but nice to have nonetheless.
At this point a regular Makefile might be in order that can do any data fetching or preprocessing before calling the typst compiler.
Yeah, there's a lot of ways to do this. As I said, it's more of a nice to have feature rather than anything else.