Typst is "A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn". It's written in Rust, and particularly attractive because, while providing a CLI interface, it is a proper library that you can easily incorporate into your progress to produce documents. Protip: If you do so, have a look at sys.inputs, it's awesome!

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago

Typst is just awesome, highly recommended.

[–] Kualk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

It is an add in disguise for commercial project.

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 7 points 1 month ago

We live in a capitalist society. Most of Typst is open source including the CLI, library, and IDE support; and the source is Rust so why not share in a Rust community?

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

While you missed the mark here since typst has all the important stuff open (I wouldn't use the web interface even if it was free/open source), I appreciate that you're keeping an eye open.

If you were in r*ddit's rust community a few years ago, you probably would have been banned, just like me😄

A blog post from M$ mentioning Rust with zero code

=> straight to the top

A news article regurgitating the same thing a week later

=> straight to the top

Another news article two weeks later regurgitating the same thing, possibly with the addition of a random tweet from some M$ dev

=> straight to the top

Anyone not sucking nu-M$'s ****

=> banished to the bottom, or worse.

Things got so silly to the point where I made this jerk post (archive link) about one of these silly posts.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is? What do you mean?

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think what Kualk@lemm.ee is getting at is that Typst also a paid web app developed by a for-profit company. This same company is who manages the github repo for the Typst language compiler. They seem to take issue that this post is promoting a partially open-source project for a for-profit company.

[–] nrab@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

But typst itself is fully open-source. Saying it’s a „partially open-source project” is a mischaracterization. You don’t need to use the web IDE and it’s not strictly part of the „typst project”

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Kudos to them if they can provide fundings for open source typst.