Deyan GinevIn one day - one day! - of going open source, the Typst typesetting system passed 5,000 stars on Github.
If you ever needed evidence that there is a real hunger for a TeX replacement, this is it.
Martti Bergström@dginev After few hours of playing with it, I'm not yet fully convinced about everything Typst claims to be. Great, if it's of use to people who find TeX (or LaTeX, LuaTeX etc.) difficult to learn but I honestly can't see much difference in the learning curve, especially if you compare to using LaTeX through something like Overleaf for example.
Still very long way to go to get to the top of the stack, but nonetheless great addition in between MS Word and LaTeX. Might introduce it to my students
Certainly, it may need a couple of years of development and community growth before it starts feeling compelling for a switchover.
My excitement about it currently is from a developer standpoint. Time will tell if Typst lives up to its promise.