>Personally, though, my main criticism of LaTeX is that its logic is static and based in plaintext. Literally the best feature. Universal, easy to manage with

>Personally, though, my main criticism of LaTeX is that its logic is static and based in plaintext. Literally the best feature. Universal, easy to manage with text editors, text processing tools, version control, etc. The future should be going back to this, imo. >The future is in interactive documents (e.g., in the direction of [Wolfram's][2]), not statically compiling plaintext to image-like documents. Jesus I hope not. Text is and forever will be the superlative format for information - images and videos can be brilliant for aiding the understanding of new ideas, but they are awful as a reference. You can search text, you can't search for images or within a video. And those are not problems to be solved - things should just simply be in text.