I can recommend Tectonic (https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/) as an alternative to directly invoking th

I can recommend Tectonic (https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/) as an alternative to directly invoking the LaTeX (or in this case XeTeX) compiler. The build experience is magnitudes better than LaTeX or latexmk.