What does HackerNews think of tectonic?

A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.

Language: C

#113 in Rust

Job applicants are battling AI résumé filters with ‘white fonting’ | Jul 2023

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Personally I use https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic

Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk | Aug 2022

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> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I'm living would...mmm..not be finished yet!"

He can try "Tectonic" [0] - a modern XeTeX based TeX/LaTeX distribution that installs a minimum system and then downloads and installs dependencies on-demand. Tectonic is written in C and Rust [1].

[0] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic

Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust | Dec 2020

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If seems to me that upstream is C. https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/