> something faster I don't know that this is the major pain point. The thing is, writing complex-structure/programmed documents is not something which needs im

> something faster I don't know that this is the major pain point. The thing is, writing complex-structure/programmed documents is not something which needs immediate re-rendering with every character - just like you don't recompile your program with every character you change. This would, however, be very useful for syntax and compiler-detectable error. You would have an effectively-immediate indication of warnings and errors per line in your document, like an IDE. So it would be Java-like compilation speed rather than C++-like compilation speed... > safe LaTeX programming is basically sandboxed, or at least you have to work _very_ hard to do dangerous things. > latex is still very good at what people want it to do That's not it. It is actually usually pretty bad in doing what we want it to do (e.g. tables. Oh, the pain!) ... but what it has going for it is that you can do almost anything you want?: It will take effort and the "source code" will be ugly, but it'll work.