While still an early project, I am keeping my eye on the Tectonic(https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tecto

While still an early project, I am keeping my eye on the Tectonic(https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic) project. A re-write of the core Xetex engine in Rust with a focus on many quality of life improvements - useful error messages, UTF8 always, less line noise during build, eliminating the intermediate files, etc.