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This was built initially by two PhD students in Germany if I remember correctly, they then spun it off into a company. Super impressive given how difficult type

This was built initially by two PhD students in Germany if I remember correctly, they then spun it off into a company. Super impressive given how difficult typesetting is. And it's written in Rust as well!

drsir 3y ago
I believe they were masters students not PhD students.
- siddbudd 3y ago
  Yep, Martin Haug wrote his Master's thesis [1] about it. [1] https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/mhaug/fast-typesetting-incremental-compilation.pdf https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/mhaug/fast-typesetting-increme...
  - nakedneuron 3y ago
    Laurenz Mädje (the other founder) did too: https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/laurmaedje/programmable-markup-language-for-typesetting.pdf https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/laurmaedje/programmable-markup...
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