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...but it's forked from an existing Rust port of Latex. That's the bit that intrigues me; what is the difference between this port and the original?
by scoopertrooper 6y ago
...but it's forked from an existing Rust port of Latex.
That's the bit that intrigues me; what is the difference between this port and the original?
- infogulch 6y agoIf seems to me that upstream is C. https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/ https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/
- scoopertrooper 6y agoO'rly? https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/blob/master/src/engines/xdvipdfmx.rs https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/blob/master...
- kgwgk 6y agoIt seems you're linking to wrappers to the underlying https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/tree/master/tectonic https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/tree/master...
- OJFord 6y agoAs I understand/recall - the intention was always to be a rust rewrite; the starting point was 'let's take all the C and wrap it in `unsafe`'. The issue linked up-thread introduces this fork (~ a year ago) titling it '[convert to rust] everything' (emphasis mine), and going on to talk about 'pure rust' (again). I think the main repo's issue at least would've been a clearer submission than the fork; I initially had the same reaction as above.