Discussion
deep1283: If you’re installing this on a fresh machine, the network installer is usually the smoother option. The full ISO is great if you’re setting up multiple systems or need an offline install, but for most people the net install saves some headaches.
__mharrison__: Cool. I've moved on to typst and hope to never touch latex again in my lifetime...
netbioserror: I've recently made a dozen vastly different projects with Typst, ALL of which would have created dependency hell, syntax noise, and hours of extra pointless work in Latex. It's such a clear win at this point it's embarrassing.
xvilka: I wonder what's the status of LaTeX 3[1][2]. Also, it would be nice to have an automation in the style of Tectonic[3][4] (which looks like a dead project itself) out of the box.[1] https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/[2] https://github.com/latex3/latex3[3] http://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/[4] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/
xvilka: Typst lacks PGF/TikZ alternative.
blipmusic: https://typst.app/universe/package/cetz
mieses: reminds me of when LyX became trendy with a small group of optimists.
alxhslm: Stared typst ages ago. Thanks for the reminder to try it out. Now the cost of switching is so low too
alxhslm: Seems like an admirable project but they’re building on creaky foundations. Even the way TexLive is released feels like something from academia than a real piece of software.
dngray: The last time I did this I used the isolandoftex docker image and set it up with DevContainers in vscode https://eccentric.dk/2025/08/25/using-texlive-with-dev-conta...
xvilka: Interesting, thanks. Looks quite promising.
theanonymousone: A WASM version of (La)TeX plus a decent IDE would be amazing. I'm wondering if such a thing exists.
pjmlp: After delivering my thesis in LaTeX, I never bothered with it again, even at CERN back in 2003 most folks were using a mixture of Word and FrameMaker, with templates to have a TeX like paper output.
KeplerBoy: SwiftLatex, TexLyre and StellarLatex seem to be exactly this. Apparently this is something a lot of people want to see in the world, awesome stuff. I wonder what's the performance like between native XeLaTex and these wasm version and if it will be Overleaf's demise if these solutions can be easily self-hosted by organizations without worrying about the server getting bogged down by compile jobs.https://www.swiftlatex.com/https://arxtect.github.io/StellarLatexLandinghttps://texlyre.github.io/
noosphr: Yes, unlike real software it has backward compatibility to the 80s.
mono442: latex error messages are basically indecipherable to me which makes it unusable for anything
thangalin: ConTeXt often goes unmentioned in TeX threads.https://wiki.contextgarden.net/It's a monolithic kernel with a relatively sane collection of "setup" macros that, by and large, can accomplish much of what LaTeX and its packages can do.If you're curious about how to build TeX from scratch, have a look at my TeX.SE answer:https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/576314/2148