As a long time latex user, and one who is occasionally frustrated by usual things about latex, I have two qualms about attempting to switch to a new system. The first is I already have found solutions to many of my edge cases in latex. Will I have to do this all over again in something like Typst? It can't be so good as to not have any. And when I do encounter them, is the user base big enough to have already encountered it and solved it and wrote about it, so I can just look it up?

Looking at the example in the link, in principle it looks great. But one of the strengths of latex is that I can customize things. Like for the list example, I can have fine tune control over the indent on both sides, the list marker symbol, the space between the marker and the text, and so on and so on. Does typst have this level of control?

Same boat here. It’s a very good layout language. And vastly superior production process. Will you find new edge cases? Yes. Is there a large user base covering all problems? No.

You can add: “Does Claude Code understand it well enough?” No as of a year ago, last time I checked.

Typst still does not natively support floating images. You can put images at the top of a page, or at the bottom, but there is no native way to declare an image as floating with text wrapping around it.

Control for indentation, spacing and symbol is available: https://typst.app/docs/reference/model/list/

I guess to add to that, what if there is another party involved with your work that will demand latex? Like a library or journal publishing your thesis/paper?