adamnemecek

It is not a coincidence that the author's nickname, Boz, is so close to Bozo the Clown, only a clown could write this.

Is Ruby really where it's at right now?

He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of higher education

I hope it does.

Ok it is the same Modular, nvm.

If you are talking about the Qualcomm acquisition that was a different Modular.

Seems kinda underwhelming considering they raised like $400M.

You can export typst as latex.

I haven't met anyone who knows Typst even exists.

It was released in 2023 and became polished enough to use like last year. Yeah, adoption takes time but the technology is significantly better.

The problem is also momentum. Do you rewrite 30 years' of CTAN contributions, internal templates/styles and the toolchain off and start again or not?

With latex you have to rely on third party. With typst you can write it yourself (or with an agent), like writing functions is not painful in typst.

That is like saying "Ruby is not slow, you can write native extensions in C". No, Markdown is not extensible.

It's cool sure, powerful also... but when anybody has access to both vector-based editor and raster-based editor ... but also tools that incorporate them, e.g. rich text editors ... but also entire toolchain going from compilers to libraries all the way to Web based notebook with their editors and running environment that can then output printable artifacts, I don't think there has to be "the" way. They might be a more popular way within a certain zeitgeist but... does one project has to "replace" another one?

cool, why do you think people use tikz? And like generating images programmatically from text is impossibly more powerful than using vector editors.

The problem with markdown is that it's not extensible and that there is no spec. Essentially all READMEs would be better off using typst, they would make for better READMEs.

Typst is the most important open source project of the last 5 years.

I predict a future where markdown and latex are largely replaced by typst. And I couldn't be more excited.

It is such a stepup from markdown and latex. Try it today if you are intrigued.

This looks really good. I have been using git to store some PDF (tens of GBs) and git is really not well suited for this. No GFS is not a solution.

Almost exactly a year ago, I made the switch from generating LaTeX from markdown using pandoc to typst. Best decision I have ever made. I can actually write my own macros (both LaTeX and pandoc were a pain in the ass).

The ecosystem is not quite a mature as latex, however I can implement the things I need myself.

If you are on the fence, do yourself a favor and try it. There is a VS Code extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=myriad-d....

It is a killer feature. It tells me I can easily compile and edit the code myself.

They are early versions, wait 4 years.

For years, AI researchers have used math as a proving ground for their models.

For years?

I feel like it's harder to hide malicious stuff in Rust build scripts.

Autodiff is preventing any meaningful discussion about safety, systems trained with autodiff cannot be made safe.

Here's the repo link https://github.com/NVlabs/cuda-oxide

This is exactly how the open sourcing of Swift went so I imagine it will be the same.

+1 for Typst being amazing.

I can actually like write my own functions when I need to. I don't think I have ever written a LaTeX macro without having to look up a lot of stuff.

That's like saying that Ted Kaczynski was innocent, because he didn't force anyone to open the packages.

They are back because modern languages (Rust, Go) have made it pretty straight forward to build them. Ratatui and such allow you to write a TUI really quickly without needing to deal with VT100 arcana.

I think that you send the entire conversation with every request.

It really doesn't, Rust is a better language.

It makes complete sense to polish that usecase.

This blog post is less than excellent. In fact it's a bit of a shit.

Neither did Steve Jobs and no one cared.

What do people use for Windows-like window management on macos? I tried a bunch of them and I'm not a fan of any of them.

I actively dislike the notion of spaces.