I must say I really like the more straightforward syntax, semantics, and distribution model of Typst. LaTeX is akin to programming with the C preprocessor, it's both ridiculous and amazing what people have done with it but it gets quickly intractable. However, I really do enjoy the quality of graphics, diagrammatic, and scientific output from LaTeX, even if typing them is a pain (LLMs are a huge help here).

So asking the community here: what does Typst offer in place of PGF/TikZ[1], PGFPlots[2], Asymptote[3], chemfig[4], siunitx[5], physics2[6], and how does it work with existing bibliography providers? I use biber[7] with the Zotero Connector and Better BibTeX[8] so any paper I visit on the web is essentially instantly available to cite with one click on LaTeX.

A good test for Typst ought to be reproducing most of these typographic and diagrammatic exemplars: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/

[1]: https://tikz.dev/

[2]: https://tikz.dev/pgfplots/

[3]: https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/

[4]: https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/generic/chemfig/chemfig-en.p...

[5]: https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/siunit...

[6]: https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/physics2/physi...

[7]: https://mirrors.ctan.org/biblio/biber/base/documentation/bib...

[8]: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/

Cetz[0] is the drawing library in typst. For your other needs check out the package repository at [1] (visualization should be the correct category).

Typst has a bibtex support by default [2].

[0] https://typst.app/universe/package/cetz [1] https://typst.app/universe/search/?kind=packages&category=vi... [2] https://typst.app/docs/reference/model/bibliography/

Obviously the drawing capabilities aren't equivalent yet.

bibtex files can be used in typst.