Typst is fantastic and I recommend to dive into it to see how much value it offers. To me personally, the biggest strength is the ergonomics of both the tooling and the language, and how ergonomics persist even between documents of various complexity. Writing a paper in LaTeX is nice, but making something like a CV takes some patience. Meanwhile, in typst it was quick to get started and go all the way to building resumes, character sheets, and I know of at least one occurrence of implementing symbolic math in typst language. It's not without quirks, but still, very solid alternative

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specproc 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

All I've done in Typst is my CV, I saw it here a while back and thought it'd be a nice use case.

It took about a day to get my head round the language an another to get it looking like I wanted. It's pretty simple, but I found it easy to run up and maintain.

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chanux 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I maintained my CV in Latex for years (originally got started on this due to the fear of MS Word) and recently tried out Typst. I agree with you that it's quite simple to get started with. Also, I had to maintain a Ubuntu based Docker image with everything needed for the build.

Also if anyone is looking for a little help in getting started, LLMs are pretty decent at converting (and I forget which one I used).

	▲	klabetron 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My CV is still in LaTeX which gives me the opportunity to procrastinate updating it (rather than actually applying for jobs) because of all of the tweaking I do. If nothing else, typist is going go give me more opportunities to procrastinate! Nice.