[fredguth]

The latest version has Typst support and allow producing pdf files much faster than any LateX distribution. Even with a complex template it compiles almost instantly and you can see the final pdf changing while you are typing.

[ericjmorey]

I'm increasingly accepting of the opinion that PDFs are an obsolete file format.

[cscheid]

(disclosure: I work on Quarto) I 100% agree with you. It's partly why tools from the Quarto lineage (knitr, rmarkdown) work hard to make popular latex features like crossreferences work in HTML and other forward-facing formats. At the same time, if you haven't tried Typst, my opinion is that doing so is an afternoon well spent. It's an impressive system even early in its development stage. I'm hoping it finally displaces LaTeX --- and I'm a former academic having written about a hundred papers in LaTeX!

[__mharrison__]

As an author, PDFs are indispensable. A good chunk of folks still prefer to read physical books.

When I migrated my own tooling from rst, I was looking at Quarto but ended up rolling my own pandoc/md tooling.