3 ms·
With the sorry state of latex engine error messages and the version number still approximating pi, e, something, it is no longer an ideal to me. It represents s
by kzrdude 4y ago
With the sorry state of latex engine error messages and the version number still approximating pi, e, something, it is no longer an ideal to me. It represents stagnation. Being bug-free may be good, but at some point feature development is needed. (I know TeX and LaTeX are not the same)
- dhosek 4y agoThere are some serious legacy issues with the LaTeX ecosystem. The lack of being able to version individual package dependencies for a document is a huge one. You’re at the mercy of lots of independent packages which often have complex webs of interdependency. Probably the biggest mistake was the choice to abandon the idea of having a LaTeX 3 version with its implicit breaking of backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility means that there’s a tangle of fragility that only grows with time which is part of why the error messages are so frequently bad. Changes are a fraught proposition. This is part of what inspired my decision to start work on finl.
- kzrdude 4y agoBest of luck