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Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine by mbel on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @04:49AM (#14451143)
How is a thin wrapper for a C library a killer app?
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Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine by chrismorgan on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:35AM (#14451293)
It’s already not a thin wrapper around a C library; it has ~7,000 of functionality-adding Rust code, and is planning to steadily move things to Rust.
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