Please stop with the hyperbole, weak defaults are not backdoors, know the difference. A backdoor is precisely what the UK was commanding, that is a secret way to siphon the cleartext data while purporting E2EE. Messages and other data syncing to iCloud using standard encryption (that is both you and Apple know the key) is simply a different trust model. It has its own set of benefits because there is less technical burden on the user which would usually arise in the event of a disaster and attempting to recover the data.
Yes, because Apple knows the key, they can yield your cleartext data to law enforcement or whoever they authorise, but that is implied in the trust model, it isn't kept a secret or done dishonestly. A backdoor would is a devious or dishonest mechanism to siphon data, which nothing of the sort is happening here, because the trust model is transparent to the user.
They say that the subscription to their web application is a good way to fund them. Unfortunately they don't do bounties because I would like to focus money into HTML export support.
Yeah, i was not looking for a subscription but rather a one-off donation (either cash via post or bank wire).
I'm curious about what's missing for you in the current HTML export? I haven't tried it but i've read about people playing with it and it seems already quite comprehensive from an outsider's look?
I write this in pretty much every Typst thread.
Here are some notes I wrote when I started out with typst when comparing with LaTeX and some recent additions:
1. It doesn't generate 5 bloody files when compiling.
2. Compiling is instant.
3. Diagnostics are way easier to understand (sort of like Rust compiler suggestion style).
4. List items can be either - item1 - item2, etc. or [item1], [item2]. The latter is way better because you can use anchoring to match on the braces (like "%" in vim), which means navigating long item entries is much easier.
5. In latex you have the \document{...} where you can't specify macros so they need to be at the top, in Typst you can specify the macros close to where you need them. [I've been informed this is actually incorrect and Latex does allow you to specify macros anywhere]
6. It's easier to version control and diff, especially if you use semantic line breaks.
7. Changing page layout, margins, spacing between things, etc., footers with page counters, etc. just seems way easier to do.
8. Compiling with Typst is always one pass.
9. I'm not sure how this would compare with Latex but I'm in law school and needed to cite using AGLC4 which has a CSL (citationstyles.org) template supported by Typst; I have confirmed the CSL XML is correct but doesn't render properly in Typst. The workaround I found was to hand typeset my own citation and bibliography which sucks.
10. Most of what you need is built in to Typst and I've yet to need to import a package or template; even for the most basic documents with Latex you find you'll need to use many packages (such as fancyhdr for customised headers and footers).
11. Latex distributions can be a monstrosity, gigabytes in size like TexLive, and I acknowledge you can get slimmed down on-demand version such as Miktex. There's just one distribution of Typst and its pretty lean, although it might be nice to have multiple implementations in the future.
12. Latex markup looks like an eye-sore, typst reads more naturally as plain-text with a bit of a markdown flavour.
13. Although I loathe discord, I find getting real time support so easy with an almost real time answer to any question I have and the community is heaps friendly; getting support with Latex is not so easy.
I wrote my first paper (nothing to publich, just for university) ever and went from typst to latest last minute because I got scared and went with the template of a studi-colleague. I heard latex was bad, but it's much worse than I could have ever anticipated.
I took the time off uni to migrate back to typst because I refuse to submit to the psychological warfare that is latex ever again.
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