Comment by vicapow
7 hours ago
The deeper I got, the more I realized really supporting the entire LaTeX toolchain in WASM would mean simulating an entire linux distribution :( We wanted to support Beamer, LuaLaTeX, mobile (wasn't working with WASM because of resource limits), etc.
We had been building literally the same thing for the last 8 months along with a great browsing environment over arxiv -- might just have to sunset it
Any plans of having typst integrated anytime soon?
I'm not against typst. I think it's integration would be a lot easier and more straightforward I just don't know if it's really that popular yet in academia.
But what's the point ?
To end up with yet another shitty (because running inside a browser, in particular its interface) web app ?
Why not focus efforts into making a proper program (you know, with IBM menu bars and keyboard shortcuts), but with collaborative tools too ?