• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I do quite like how clear TeX is. The curly braces make it completely unambiguous how everything is supposed to be parsed, which means even though it’s a little more awkward to write, it’s still a lot easier to write if your comments are getting more complicated. Plus it’s so much easier for the parsing libraries to get right.

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      6 months ago

      I just love how universal it is. Sure, it has its flaws, but its strength is how many different applications use it. Once you know how to write TeX, you can express any equation you want clearly and understandably, as opposed to trying to write it with Unicode. Bonus points for how easy it is to add TeX rendering to the web with libraries like KaTeX (my personal favourite) or MathJax. I was able to add TeX support to my blog in 10 minutes.

      I’m a bit of a sucker for TeX as might be apparent from my infodumping. If anyone’s as passionate and doesn’t know of it yet: You should try the https://texnique.xyz game. It’s a timed TeX typing game. I can get up to 70-80 points in it fairly consistently :D