Here's a potential successor to LaTeX written in Rust that is actually getting some traction: https://typst.app/
The syntax to write a document simpler than LaTeX and is kind of a mix between LaTeX and Markdown: https://typst.app/docs/tutorial/writing-in-typst/
It's still young (there's not even a v1.0 yet) but they already have quite many packages: https://typst.app/universe/search/?kind=packages
Looks useful. Markdown gets annoying as well for edge cases. LaTeX is too confusing to learn.
Way more readable than LaTeX.
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