There's already a pandoc conversion to Typst and the syntax is mostly similar. Various symbols that are in use in markdown is used by the Typst in some other places (e.g. # is used for designating code mode in content mode so you can use variables function in-text).
> 2. Why would we want to observe changes in real time? Do you want this when coding too?
If you've ever wanted to just use something that's more powerful than Markdown (and not use awkward HTML in between, let's face it MD was supposed to be minimal), you have to use LaTeX, but it gets painfully slow as the project gets big. Fast feedback loops are essential. Would you rather wait 5s seconds to see that you have made changes that destroyed your layout or in an instant with incremental compilation?
3. You can collaborate with Git (and on the Web App) because Typst is also a language and a compiler (see their GitHub page at https://github.com/typst/typst) like LaTeX.
You can have it function as well as Markdown with templates and just use the sugar syntax (plus custom functions ad hoc without having to wrangle with LaTeX's enigmatic errors [1] and confusing macros even for something trivial like fonts [2]).
[1]: remember \badness 10000?
[2]: You'd have to install a package even though the OTF/TTF of the font you want is already installed on your system. And don't even mention how it's a completely different setup for PDFLaTeX, ConTeXT, and LuaLaTeX to use fonts. This is assuming you want to use LaTeX templates with markdown using Pandoc or Quarto. sigh...
There's already a pandoc conversion to Typst and the syntax is mostly similar. Various symbols that are in use in markdown is used by the Typst in some other places (e.g. # is used for designating code mode in content mode so you can use variables function in-text).
> 2. Why would we want to observe changes in real time? Do you want this when coding too?
If you've ever wanted to just use something that's more powerful than Markdown (and not use awkward HTML in between, let's face it MD was supposed to be minimal), you have to use LaTeX, but it gets painfully slow as the project gets big. Fast feedback loops are essential. Would you rather wait 5s seconds to see that you have made changes that destroyed your layout or in an instant with incremental compilation?
3. You can collaborate with Git (and on the Web App) because Typst is also a language and a compiler (see their GitHub page at https://github.com/typst/typst) like LaTeX.
You can have it function as well as Markdown with templates and just use the sugar syntax (plus custom functions ad hoc without having to wrangle with LaTeX's enigmatic errors [1] and confusing macros even for something trivial like fonts [2]).
[1]: remember \badness 10000?
[2]: You'd have to install a package even though the OTF/TTF of the font you want is already installed on your system. And don't even mention how it's a completely different setup for PDFLaTeX, ConTeXT, and LuaLaTeX to use fonts. This is assuming you want to use LaTeX templates with markdown using Pandoc or Quarto. sigh...