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Web2c is typically used these days. The issue is not as simple as "It needs to be written in C".
by Crito 13y ago
Web2c is typically used these days. The issue is not as simple as "It needs to be written in C".
- sentenza 13y agoWell, I gave up when I saw that it wasn't written in anything I could work with, so this is news to me. Also, having had some bad experiences with to-C translated code (looking at you, Matlab), I'd say that knowing that Web2C exists doesn't cause me great optimism.
- maxerickson 13y agoThere is recent work on a TeX engine with a Lua interface: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36/differences-between-luatex-context-and-xetex http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36/differences-betwee... But still LaTeX sits on top of that, so it probably doesn't move you along very much.