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Re:TeX Live 2014 by robinhoodexe on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @05:46PM (#7913073)
A dream in the distant future:

(La)TeX gets the same treatment as Vim is getting right now with Neovim [1]. A full refractoring to make code from the 80s readable by a larger group, make it faster (some kind of JIT compiler would be nice) and just cleaner in every way.

[1] http://neovim.org/

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Re:TeX Live 2014 by Derbasti on Thursday June 19, 2014 @01:33AM (#7914613)
Pdflatex is a rewrite that compiles directly to PDF.

Xetex is a rewrite that supports Unicode and TTF/OTF fonts.

Luatex is a rewrite that supports Unicode and TTF/OTF fonts and is scriptable in Lua.

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Re:TeX Live 2014 by Derbasti on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:51AM (#7915239)
Oh, I forgot: LuaJitTex is a descendant of LuaTex that uses LuaJit to compile.
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Re:TeX Live 2014 by s9w on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @05:50PM (#7913098)
It would be fantastic, yes. I guess the difficulty with LaTeX are that typography and pdf/ps output are more difficult than other projects.
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