I suspect it is getting better but I've experienced some breaking changes with Typst. Nothing that was terribly difficult to fix, debugging it wasn't obvious though.

There seems to be a huge amount of folks that want typst to work. I respect TeX and LaTeX, immensely, but it's so vast and byzantine. Maybe I don't know where or what, but some kind of clean LaTeX "distribution" is needed. It seems like you could build it in to containers or something. Just have some way that sort of makes it more of an atomic unit or something. I don't know how many times I've pulled down a template started to build it and something was missing.

It's good to see innovation in this space and people using it.

Sounds like they could benefit from the R (language) build model that checks library changes against registered consumers of that library before merging.

https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorep...

> Maybe I don't know where or what, but some kind of clean LaTeX "distribution" is needed.

Unfortunately it’s a bit like asking for a “clean” Python distribution or a “safe” subset of C++. All the baroque mess is necessary to get working the many legacy packages that many people depend upon. And not just depend upon, but depend upon with all their concomitant foibles, bugs, and learned work-arounds.