Jakub Steiner ⭐@thibaultamartin recently posted about his experience with Typst. I haven't written anything significant since my Uni days. Recently my son's had to struggle with a MS Word project. I ended up mad that nothing has changed since my own experience with Word & Open/Libre Office and been drawn to and experimented with Typst too. Since then I've bumped into a nice GNOME App, Typesetter, that should lubricate all the initial friction you might have with Typst. It's neat.
Timothy Roes@jimmac @thibaultamartin Oh looks cool. Sorry I'm new to Typst. What makes it beter than Markdown or LaTeX?
Aiono@TimothyRoes @jimmac @thibaultamartin Typst syntax is very intuitive if you already know programming, and it actually has programming structures instead of bespoke macros. Functions work the way you expect, error messages make sense etc. In my experience it's just a lot more pleasant and productive than Latex.
@aiono @jimmac @thibaultamartin Error messages that make sense?! That may finally heal the trauma of writing a 500 page dissertation in LaTeX.