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  • September 2026 • Rust Systems TeX

    Why I Built TeXres: Modernizing TeX While Waiting for Typst

    Typst is the future of typesetting, but academic journals and arXiv still mandate legacy LaTeX. Here is why we had to build a pure-Rust engine to eliminate TeX's auxiliary file clutter, cryptic error dumps, and 40-year build bottlenecks today.

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