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olorum
Apr 24, 2021

(La)TeX definitely sucks but while I can see the programmatic aspects of it being replaced (most academics use those very sparingly anyway) the math symbols never will, it's as much of a standard as math notation is. Also Detexify helps a lot with finding symbols, if someone finds a nice way to integrate something like that with an editor then we're not so far from your handwriting recognition dream

As for the programmatic part, I think if you built something that looks like TeX but with readable compiler error messages and a less excruciating experience for things like writing TikZ diagrams then I think people might be inclined to move

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