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I think the main blocking point is that TeX algorithms are near optimal for a lot of the technical typesetting and everything else looks somewhat off to the ast
by pama 3y ago
I think the main blocking point is that TeX algorithms are near optimal for a lot of the technical typesetting and everything else looks somewhat off to the astute readers, and those readers are repeat consumers of the technical texts.
- a2800276 3y agoIt's not as though the TeX algorithms are secret and can't possibly be recreated elsewhere.
- pama 3y agoAbsolutely. There simply hasn’t been a better/faster implementation outside the existing TeX ecosystem so far. Returning to the comment that I replied to: everybody could rewrite/extend Fortran; it will still be Fortran.