"A Programmer's Hell Is LaTeX": Academic Reflects on Three Years with Typst
StefanoGogioso · x · 2026-11-07
Math/quantum computing researcher Stefano Gogioso resurfaces his famous rant: a programmer's hell isn't the arcane, unused Malbolge but LaTeX — "just good enough" that academia forces everyone to use it, with cryptic error messages and a debugging ritual of clearing caches and commenting out everything.
After being introduced to Typst almost three years ago, he's convinced there's a better typesetting future. The retrospective rekindles the classic LaTeX vs Typst debate.
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