[tylerneylon]

I'm a fan of most of what Knuth has done, and in particular I love the high quality _output_ of the TeX family. But TeX's language is extremely difficult to use. I suspect this is true for any macro-expansion-like language.

If you like deep dives, I suggest two follow-up tools for mathematical typesetting:

1. LuaTeX, which is TeX + Lua scripting support. (luatex.org) An example:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70/what-is-a-simple-...

This has become my default, and I enjoy it. (I use lualatex.)

2. A friend of mine was inspired to write a modern macOS app for math typesetting. It's called MadHat:

https://madhat.design/

One of the coolest features is "no compilation," which I view as a slight exaggeration, but what's true is that it can work quickly and incrementally so you don't have a compile-and-wait cycle, even on long documents.

[leephillips]

few examples of things you can do with LuaTeX, and a tutorial: https://lwn.net/Articles/731581/