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Re:Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust by colejohnson66 on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:00AM (#25332703)
You’re leaving out the best part! When he passes (hopefully not anytime soon[a]) the version number of TeX will become pi. Any and all bugs will become “features” at that point. Same with METAFONT; it’ll become e.

[a]: I’d love to get a full and complete set of The Art of Computer Programming (all volumes) written first (on his own time, of course), but I doubt that’ll actually happen. According to Wikipedia, there’s supposed to be 7 volumes, and he’s still working on the second half(?) of the 4th.

Re:Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust by drran on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:28AM (#25333021)
Someone may change his name to D. E. Knuth and continue to improve code. License allows that.