It makes you happy while using it because it just works
Packages are available in typst universe and you don’t need to install 2000 Debian packages to be able to use it reasonably because most things are just available
There are some super cool packages like that diagrams one, or that inline comments one.
If you have an error, it tells you what the fucking problem is instead of printing 2000 lines of crap and saying overfull hbox 200 times
There are many templates for all kinds of purposes
Math mode is a bit different from latex but mich easier to remember since you often just write things out. Fractions are just done with /, more complicated things are just writing the name out. It’s actually rather intuitive.
The documentation is much better than latex, especially for the base language.
It’s fast as fuck. My bachelor Thesis builds in milliseconds. No need to build 3 times over with each being 5 seconds.
Like overleaf? typst.app has that too. Local works just as well though. Language server for neovim or other editors exist too.
It’s actually programmable with variables and loops and conditionals and functions and all that if you need it.
Probably some more, just wrote a little list after waking up out of my head
Thanks for the long list! I’m not “opposed” to typst, whatever that would mean, just a bit cautious picking up new workflows/investing into skills that may become irrelevant 2 years later. But it seems that for my use case the main advantage are more useful error messages (which does suck sometimes using latex). I also see a potential new use case, if I need to use/create a new template, which can take some time with latex. The other points are not really bothering me. I write my texts in vim and build the pdf later, once the text is finished. Latex is fast enough for that.
Pros of typst:
Probably some more, just wrote a little list after waking up out of my head
Thanks for the long list! I’m not “opposed” to typst, whatever that would mean, just a bit cautious picking up new workflows/investing into skills that may become irrelevant 2 years later. But it seems that for my use case the main advantage are more useful error messages (which does suck sometimes using latex). I also see a potential new use case, if I need to use/create a new template, which can take some time with latex. The other points are not really bothering me. I write my texts in vim and build the pdf later, once the text is finished. Latex is fast enough for that.
I write my stuff in neovim with latex. Works really well. There is a live preview plugin if you want that too.
It’s blazing fast, too, when compared with LaTeX. And another WIP feature I’m particularly excited about: HTML export.