I'm not sure the selling point is similarity with markdown, but rather, to improve, or modernize LaTeX/TeX-the-language/s: TeX is really archaic: if you're curi

I'm not sure the selling point is similarity with markdown, but rather, to improve, or modernize LaTeX/TeX-the-language/s: TeX is really archaic: if you're curious, there's a series of articles by overleaf[0] detailing some of TeX's inner-working, quite insightful. I remember reading — but can't find a source at the moment — that TeX originally didn't had counters; people came to rely on Church numerals[1] instead, before Knuth finally implemented them. EDIT: found out where I've read about it: [2] [0]: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/A_six-part_series%3A_How_do_TeX_macros_actually_work%3F https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/A_six-part_series%3A_Ho... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29713270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29713270